 What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make...  Complete Works - Page 254by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
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...as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through...when it flows through his affection, it is love." —Ralph Waldo Emerson. MODERNISM By Rev. AHC Morse, MA, BD AT the time of his election it was known... | |
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...as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresent himself. Him we do not respect ; but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend." And he continues thus: "When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through... | |
 | Meyrick Booth - 1913 - 244 pages
...importance and significance within the whole." Emerson put the matter in a nutshell when he said : " the blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself." 1 Intellect not the Driving Force in History A very considerable section of the modern public is still... | |
 | 1915 - 266 pages
...as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through...virtue; when it flows through his affection it is love." "Soul," "truth," "universal mind" are synonymous expressions with Emerson ; and the world's history... | |
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...which, for pure enlightenment, outranks all the rest of the essay: "When it breathes through his [man's] intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through...when it flows through his affection, it is love." l For the rest, the impression we get is vast and fluid — oceanic, in short; with men as arms or... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 130 pages
...by Emerson as the "fall of man" (III, 77). Spirit no longer works according to its own perfect laws. "And the blindness of the intellect begins when it...when the individual would be something of himself" (II, 255). This doctrine of the "lapse," which Bronson Alcott had absorbed probably from his reading... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 124 pages
...of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. . . . When it breathes through his intellect it is genius...; when it flows through his affection it is love. ... It contradicts all experience. ... It abolishes time and space. . . . The soul knows only the soul;... | |
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