 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
 | Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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 | David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 188 pages
...Or, again : " 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...do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams."3 ' " Plato and Platonism," NY, 1891, pp. 149, 150. 2 v1n, 43. 3 II, 64. The correspondence... | |
 | David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 190 pages
...Or, again : " 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...do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams."3 '"Plato and Platonism," NY, 1891, pp. 149, 150. 2 vm, 43. 3 n, 64. The correspondence between... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...impiety and atheism. 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...discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a s passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 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...of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If 20 we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If 20 we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes— all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 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...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 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...passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, it" we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern 15 justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves,...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. I,ts presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man... | |
 | 1916 - 318 pages
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