 | 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... | |
 | William James - 1917 - 88 pages
...naturally with that whole tendency of thought known as transcendentalism. Emerson, for example, writes : " We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...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,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in 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,... | |
 | 1918 - 750 pages
...pre-requisite to have humility of spirit no less than confidence of hope. " We lie," as Emerson says, " in the lap of immense Intelligence, which' makes us...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. . . . We * Preface to Saducismus Triumpkatus, 2nd ed., 1682. can do nothing of ourselves but allow... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of imjnpnse intelligence, which makes us organs nf its ''and receivers Of Its truth.! When we discern... | |
 | Sallie Belle Tannahill - 1923 - 136 pages
...other forms in design, we need to feel unbounded possibilities and understand our power to employ them. "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence which makes...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity," Emerson has said. With an unlimited sense of mastery the designer should attack his creative problems.... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 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 do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage of its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics,... | |
 | Richard Manley Blau - 1979 - 232 pages
...his Emersonian assumption that the essence of genius, virtue, and life is Spontaneity or Instinct: "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which...truth and organs of its activity. When we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. ...Every man discriminates between... | |
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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. 
