 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.  Essays, First Series - Page 72by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 190 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams."3 1 " Plato and Platonism," NY, 1891, pp. 149, 150. 2 v1n, 43. 3 n, 64. The correspondence between... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a s passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If 20 we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, it" we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern 15 justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves,...presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man 20 discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions. And to his involuntary... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between... | |
 | Edgar Lucien Larkin - 1917 - 320 pages
...the lap of immense intellingence, which makes us organs of its activity, and receivers of the truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves but allow a passage of its beams," as Emerson says. That is: humans able to receive, do receive, perceive, discern and... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between... | |
 | William James - 1917 - 88 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." [Self -Reliance, p. 56.] But it is not necessary to identify the consciousness postulated in the lecture,... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 124 pages
...exist and afterwards see them as appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause." But "if we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm" (11,64,65). Because of Emerson's... | |
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