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...In his essay "Nature," Emerson links these two perspectives from which the infinite may be viewed: Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life. . . . This universal soul he calls Reason: it is not mine, or thine, or his, but we are its; we are...

...rest,/ Which we are toiling all our lives to find." Wordsworth, Works. Vol. 4. S. 52. 114-116. 303 „Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life". Emerson, Nature. S. 34, 13-15. 304 Vgl. Emerson, Nature. S. 40, 2-19. This is the reason why thou dost...

...points for him were the direct experience ("I become a transparent eyeball") and unconfined thoughts ("Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life").35 More generally, there were uses in any solitude, as gained by "two expedients" he recommended...

...part of the illuminated receiver of divine energy (cf. II. 2. 2, 240; II. 4. 1, 295; II. 4. 2, 326): Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind...of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom arise and shine. This universal soul he calls Reason. It is not mine, or thine, or his, but we are its; we are its property...

...Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love. . . . Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? (Emerson, Nature: 12) In this essay he goes on to anticipate recent discussions of chaos modeling and...

...nature employed by God the creator and by the poet who recognizes it to express such a law or meaning. "Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that...themselves are the beautiful type of all influence," is how it is put in Part IV, "Language," of the essay "Nature" (vol. I: 32). An inner harmony links...

...believe in providence? ls the universe tending toward the good or is it a random and meaningless affair? Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is...of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul, he calls Reason: it is not mine, or thine, or his, but we are its; we are its...

...with but fixities and definites."79 It is rather what Emerson referred to, in Nature, when he wrote, "Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life. . . . This universal soul he calls Reason."80 In "The Man with the Blue Guitar," Stevens's musician/...

...Homburg with Emerson — perhaps, Joseph Carroll suggests, the Emerson of "Nature" who "declares that 'man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life"' — and there is no question that Stevens means to situate his conception in a general tradition of...