...is the form in which Emerson expresses the theme that is important. When he defines theLOver-soul as "the soul of the whole ; the wise silence ; the universal...and particle is equally related; the eternal One," or when he tells us that "I dare not deal with this element hi its pure essence. It is too rare for...

...action is submission. . . . We live in succession ... in particles. * "Self-Reliance." 0 "History." Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty; the eternal One. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the...

...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. Our faith comes in moments, our vice is habitual. We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles....the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty . . . the eternal ONE. And so forth. Emerson was the first great American writer, "the father of us...

...resolution of all into the ever-blessed ONE." And in "The Over-Soul" he again marked: "that Unity ... the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE." In whatever essay he found it, in whatever language he saw it described, he indexed the passage. His...

...close as anyone to being the patron saint of the liberal faiths, was often given to utterances such as, "Within man is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which part and particle is equally related, the eternal One." On another occasion, the Sage of Concord simply...

...own questions. The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after. * * * We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles....is equally related; the eternal One. And this deep powerjn which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and...

...which a man can walk, btft after the counsel of his own bosom. 6 We live in succession, in dirK sion, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the...and particle is equally related ; the eternal ONE. 7 Every man's words, who speaks from that life, must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same...

...wisdom and virtue and power and beauty. We live in succession, in division, in parts, in paticles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole ; the...and particle is equally related ; the Eternal One. . . . We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of...

...Over-soul. within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other .... to which every part and particle is equally related. the eternal ONE. tOver-Soul 263i And thirdly. Shug and Nettie agree with Emerson that each person's spirit must seek...

...that within the Over-Soul 'every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other . . . within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;...and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE' (Emerson 1978: 150). There is no doubt that these ideas were formed prior to his immersion in Eastern...