 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
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 232 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...; when it flows through his affection, it is love. . . . All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the great soul have its way through us." Starting... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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...bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is j genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when j it flows through his affection,... | |
 | A. O. Butler - 1889 - 448 pages
...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 will it is virtue ; when it flows through his affections it is love. * * * All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through... | |
 | 1890 - 596 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 his action, would make our knees bend." The mere natural man as he is, or as he would be when left to himself, is not the creature of Emerson's... | |
 | 1892 - 390 pages
...is the fa$ade of a temple wherein all wisdom and good abide." " 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." In his " Lecture to Divinity Students ", Emerson speaks thus of Christ : " He saw with open eye the... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1894 - 926 pages
...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 our knees bend."1 "One mode of the divine teaching is the incarnation of the divine spirit in a form — in forms... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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...the intellect begins when it would be something of itself.1 The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself. All reform... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 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...the intellect begins when it would be something of itself.1 The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself. All reform... | |
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...background 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." — Emerson. "Truth consists in a sum of The Truth, a Sum of extremes, not in a via media Extremes.... | |
 | 1904 - 214 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 his action, would make- our knees bend. — Emerson. DECEMBER 18. Morning. Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves... | |
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