 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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