 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
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...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;... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, Theodora Goldsmith - 1918 - 120 pages
...parts, or particles; Meantime within is the soul of the whole, the universal beauty, the eternal One. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius;...virtue; When it flows through his affection, it is love. Let man learn the revelation, that the highest dwells with him, that the sources of nature are his... | |
 | Swami Paramananda - 1918 - 92 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 breathes through his intellect, it is genius; wEen If breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. And... | |
 | Warren Hilton - 1920 - 118 pages
...himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect; but the real soul whose organ he is, Drawing would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend." " I said, ye are gods," quoth the Psalmist. " Be ye perfect, even as your Father," was the injunction... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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-V And the blindness of the intellect begins, when it would be something of itself. The weakness... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1927 - 604 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. . . . All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 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. —THE OVER-SOUL Art, in the artist, is proportion, or a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1924 - 216 pages
...and the will, is the background of our being, in which they lie. When the soul, whose organ he is, breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when...; when it flows through his affection, it is love. The blindness of the intellect begins, when it would be something of itself. The weakness of the will... | |
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