...Magnetism: prayer; eloquence: self-healing; and the wisdom of children. These are examples of Reason's momentary grasp of the sceptre; the exertions of a...that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge, vesperttna cognitw, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio. The problem of restoring...

...individual life" and experiences one of those rare "examples of Reason's momentary grasp of the scepter; the exertions of a power which exists not in time or space, but as an instantaneous instreaming causing power." A sudden influx lifts the individual out of the moment...

...Emerson dismissed mere understanding, celebrating instead a more than Kantian intuitive Reason, and its "exertions of a power which exists not in time or...space, but an instantaneous in-streaming causing power" (E&L 47; italics added). And Emerson immediately goes on to allude to a crucial Coleridgean variation...

...Magnetism; prayer; eloquence; self-healing; and the wisdom of children. These are examples of Reason's momentary grasp of the sceptre; the exertions of a...or space, but an instantaneous in-streaming causing power."146 For Emerson, it was restoring, or redeeming, the soul that would restore the world. As his...