 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.  Essays: First Series - Page 57by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lew Howard - 2005 - 500 pages
...grounded? ... 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...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. The relations of the Soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose... | |
 | Lew Howard - 2005 - 500 pages
...grounded? ... 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...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. The relations of the Soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose... | |
 | Robert Collier - 2005 - 732 pages
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 | Robert Collier - 2005 - 572 pages
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 | Frederic Platt - 2006 - 576 pages
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 | Lawrence F. Rhu - 2006 - 284 pages
...Emerson writes, "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...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." Our surprise at such sentences comes from having accepted an idea of Emerson as himself a later prophet... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2006 - 280 pages
...of spirit, submissively allowing the spirit to pass through a transparent medium. As Emerson posits: "When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves," but allow a passage to the "beams" of spirit (CW 2:37). Yet even this mode of submission marks a form of communicative action... | |
 | William James - 2007 - 85 pages
...pie, writes : ** We Me IB the lap of immense intellfc gence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of our$ehre?s but allow a passage to its be,anas." [Self-Keltsn£tt p. |6.] But it is aot necessary to... | |
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