 All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison — but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the...  Essays, First Series - Page 248by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 66 pages
...its essential principle. " All goes to show," he says, " that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function,...of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses them as hands and feet, is not a faculty but a light ; is not the intellect or the will, but the master... | |
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 64 pages
...its essential principle. " All goes to show," he says, " that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function,...of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses them as hands and feet, is not a faculty but a light ; is not the intellect or the will, but the master... | |
 | Charles Mason Barrows - 1887 - 262 pages
...vice is the absence of the same. All goes to show that God, the Universal Soul, is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function...immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible. Language cannot paint it with his colors. It... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function,...immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed, (jrom within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function,...master of the intellect and the will ; — is the vast back -ground of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 406 pages
...; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will ; — is the vast back-ground of our being, in which they lie, — an...and that cannot be possessed. From within or from beheld, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1892 - 428 pages
...into knowledge of the Secret of Nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function...not a faculty, but a light ; is not the intellect or will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of the being in which they lie,... | |
 | Jirah Dewey Buck - 1897 - 120 pages
...sound. "All goes to show," says Emerson, in The Over-Soul, "That the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed." And, again, says Emerson, quoting from Swedenborg, "It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background, of our being, in which they lie, an immensity not possessed and that 190 MIND. DON'T WORRY. Modern science has brought to light nothing more curiously interesting than... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...post free to subscribers at a distance. ALL goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.... | |
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