 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
 | 1903 - 400 pages
...that the Soul in man is not an organ, but it animates and exercises all organs; is not a function, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty...but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but is the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our Being in which they lie — an... | |
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pages
...man is not an organ, but animates all the orjans. ... It is not the intellect or the will, but the 4; master of the intellect and the will ; is the background of our being in which these lie — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind,... | |
 | John P. Miller - 2000 - 188 pages
...process. Consider Emerson's (1990) definition: All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect and the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...power, of which each individual is a particular manifestation. "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" (CW, 2:161). Rather than possession or control, we must exercise a kind of vigilant watchfulness and... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...power, of which each individual is a particular manifestation. "The soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,—an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed" (CV^ 2:161). Rather than possession... | |
 | James R. Martel - 2001 - 292 pages
...an otgan, but animates and exetcises all the otgans; is not a function, like the powet of memoty. . .but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty but a light; is not the intellect ot the will, but the mastet of the intellect and the will; — is the vast backgtound of out being,... | |
 | Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 pages
...man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness," Emerson wrote.46 The soul, he explained, "is not the intellect or the will, but the master...is the background of our being, in which they lie." To be true to one's self meant to strip away what Emerson called "the façade" of everyday existence,... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...she declines towards Sensation. — Proclus All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hand and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the... | |
 | Monica Maria Tetzlaff - 2002 - 384 pages
...later. "All goes to show that the soul is not an organ but animates and exercises all the organs, ... is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will . . . From within or from behind a light shines through us upon all things and makes us understand... | |
 | Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...articulates the role of the soul in reform: "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. . . . All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words,... | |
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