 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...into knowledge of the secret of nature.2 All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function,...the intellect and the will ; is the background of out being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.3 From within... | |
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...province of Revelation." — The Lancet. The Soul: "The soul in man is not What it 1s. an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function...immensity not possessed, and that cannot be possessed. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1906 - 386 pages
...Physicists. PROFESSOR SIR WILLIAM CROOKES, FRS " 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." — EMERSON. IN spite of much loose gossip, physical science is not making any conscious move from... | |
 | Charles Brodie Patterson - 1906 - 266 pages
...in the words: "All goes to show that the soul of man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all organs; is not a function like the power of memory,...will, but the master of the intellect and the will. " From within or from behind a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing,... | |
 | Monroe Guy Carleton - 1907 - 260 pages
...self is new and unsearchable. — Emerson. 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. — Ibid. What a delight, what a transport it is, for a Soul that is wandering among the stars, to... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1907 - 210 pages
...which all right action is submission. All goes to show that the soul in man is not the intellect, nor the will, but the master of the intellect and the...is the background of our being, in which they lie. When the soul, whose organ he is, breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through... | |
 | Richard Dimsdale Stocker - 1907 - 46 pages
...nor may it be confounded with the will or the intellect. It is lord and master of all of these—"the background of our being in which they lie, an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed," which operates for the common good. The eating, drinking, planting, counting creature, does not faithfully... | |
 | 1908 - 812 pages
...power of the soul in him, which Emerson says " is not an organ ; is not a function; is not a faculty; is not the intellect or the will but the master of the intellect and the will. When it breathes through the intellect it is genius." Mansfield 's whole heart and soul, whence came... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 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,...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... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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,...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... | |
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