 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.  Emerson - Page 29by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 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 - 1915 - 200 pages
...thought. 10 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 15 justice, when we discern truth,... | |
 | 1916 - 314 pages
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 | 1916 - 306 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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