 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...athe— • ism. 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...man . discriminates between the voluntary acts of I his mind and his involuntary perceptions,/) and knows that to., his involimtnry perci?pi.f tions... | |
 | George Holmes Howison - 1901 - 442 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...of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.'" All this is in even keeping with Professor James's other sentence, 8 that "we need only suppose the... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 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...do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its 325 beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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... | |
 | Herbert Cushing Tolman - 1902 - 96 pages
...truth, that, "we lie in the lap of an immense intelligence which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when...truth, we do nothing of ourselves but allow a passage of its beams." As applied to life, we should think of the Holy City not merely as a place, where, if... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 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." The same... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1859 - 460 pages
...being : — " 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." CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY Among the persons who attended Mr. Emerson's courses of lectures were many... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 448 pages
...being : — " 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." CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY Among the persons who attended Mr. Emerson's courses of lectures were many... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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 - 1907 - 270 pages
...been insane, owes its popularity to the fact 1 The highest possible attainment. 2 The life of monks. comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes,...the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary percep5 tions, and knows that to his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due. He may err in... | |
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