 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
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pages
...(Oversoul.) "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." ( Self-Reliance.) "The soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature,... | |
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pages
...(Oversoul.) "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 we discern truth, we do nothin-r of ourselves, but allow a passage of its beams." ( Self-Reliance.) "The soul's communication... | |
 | Randall E. Auxier - 2000 - 318 pages
...Oversoul: "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence," he says, "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, quoted, too, by James in his Human Immortality.) There were no doubt two Emersons,... | |
 | Mike Millard - 2001 - 212 pages
..."Self-Reliance" that 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 the passage of its beams." Yoshi has said as much. These are not Western values, but belong to everyone.... | |
 | Daniel M. Savage - 2002 - 244 pages
...intuitive faculties. "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 passage of its beams. "52 In this particular aspect of their thought, romanticists are reminiscent... | |
 | Sanja Sostaric - 2003 - 364 pages
...as its medium: We lie in the lap of immence intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when...Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. ("Self-Reliance," SE: 187) Emerson frequently portrayed holy submission in waterimages, as in the passage... | |
 | Viviane Serfaty - 2004 - 160 pages
...pre-existing univcrsals: "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" (Emerson 1841). Emerson's insistence on the sheer fragility of the self and the fragility of its quest... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. ... If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into...at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.9 Emerson plausibly understood that human freedom required a suprarational affirmation. But... | |
 | 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... | |
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