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" Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ;... "
Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pages
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Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement

Daniel J. Philippon - 2004 - 402 pages
...(1895): 503. 51. Compare Emerson's famous passage in Nature (1836): "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; 1 am part or parcel of God" (39). 52. See also Wyatt 45. 53. I disagree, therefore, with Oravec's belief...
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God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience

David Brown - 2006 - 436 pages
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Miracles Abound: When We Open Our Hearts to God

Antoinette Bosco - 2004 - 150 pages
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A Dream Too Wild: A Book of Meditations from the Writings of Ralph Waldo ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. —NATURE Can you recall a mystical experience you have had? What did you leam from it? How did you...
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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 5, Poetry and Criticism ...

Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 648 pages
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The Sermon of All Creation: Christians on Nature

Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald - 2005 - 234 pages
...and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball, I am nothing; I see all, the currents of the Universal...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil...
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited American Romanticism

Megan Marshall - 2005 - 638 pages
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Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673–1968

Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pages
...air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal...circulate through me: I am part or particle of God." He borrowed the notion of the transcendental from Kant, who used it to characterize a class of ideas...
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Imagining America: Icons of 20th-century American Art

John Carlin, Jonathan David Fineberg - 2005 - 236 pages
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Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform

Finis Dunaway - 2005 - 271 pages
...and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Although the Darwinian revolution revealed a nature indifferent to human desires and meanings, an amoral...
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