 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
 | 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... | |
 | 1916 - 306 pages
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 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 124 pages
...exist and afterwards see them as appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause." But "if we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into...Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm" (11,64,65). Because of Emerson's so constant insistence upon this merely mystical point of view, especially... | |
 | William James - 1917 - 88 pages
...example, 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." [Self -Reliance, p. 56.] But it is not necessary to identify the consciousness postulated in the lecture,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 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...at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirmEvery man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions, and... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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...presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions, and knows that to... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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...presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions, and knows that to... | |
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