 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.  The Student - Page 2051887Full view - About this book
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.... | |
 | Sallie Belle Tannahill - 1923 - 136 pages
...other forms in design, we need to feel unbounded possibilities and understand our power to employ them. "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence which makes...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity," Emerson has said. With an unlimited sense of mastery the designer should attack his creative problems.... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. he earthquake He has spoken; He has smitten with His...with Miriam by the sea, He has cast the mighty down If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...which giveth man wisdom, and which . * cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in \ Cvthe lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 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 do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage of its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.... | |
 | Richard Manley Blau - 1979 - 232 pages
...his Emersonian assumption that the essence of genius, virtue, and life is Spontaneity or Instinct: "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which...truth and organs of its activity. When we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. ...Every man discriminates between... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.... | |
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