 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 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...passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, it" we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern 15 justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves,...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. I,ts presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man... | |
 | Edgar Lucien Larkin - 1917 - 320 pages
...the lap of immense intellingence, which makes us organs of its activity, and receivers of the truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves but allow a passage of its beams," as Emerson says. That is: humans able to receive, do receive, perceive, discern and... | |
 | William James - 1917 - 88 pages
...naturally with that whole tendency of thought known as transcendentalism. Emerson, for example, writes : " We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." [Self -Reliance, p. 56.] But it is not necessary to identify the consciousness postulated in the lecture,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 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... | |
 | 1918 - 750 pages
...pre-requisite to have humility of spirit no less than confidence of hope. " We lie," as Emerson says, " in the lap of immense Intelligence, which' makes us...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. . . . We * Preface to Saducismus Triumpkatus, 2nd ed., 1682. can do nothing of ourselves but allow... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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...comes, 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... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 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...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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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. 
