...unmediated. Inward and outward senses, mind and eye, are adjusted to one another. It is in this way that "the laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass" (CollW, 1:21; emphasis added)—when the object of the eye and the object of the mind are one and the...

...orderly control of his own transcendent entry into a larger universe, where, as Emerson has reminded us "The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass."51 These surfaces too are glass-like. The luminist painter, like Emerson's poet "turns the world...

...what he refers to as "spiritual facts" are moral truths - facts that not only 'are' but 'ought to be': The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus the whole is greater than the part; reaction is equal to action; the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest [...] and...