 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 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1911 - 300 pages
...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. ... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. . . . The... | |
 | Durant Drake - 1916 - 448 pages
...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...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." i In such moments of insight the religious man finds an added inspiration in the thought that he is... | |
 | John Herman Randall - 1916 - 376 pages
...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all ; the currents of the universal...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Out of the lower into the higher, out of sense-consciousness into cosmic consciousness, out of organization... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 124 pages
...which brought such ridicule upon Emerson at the outset of his career. "I am a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and parcel of God" (I, 16). But Emerson soon perceived a danger in this point of view. The individual... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1921 - 260 pages
...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...or servant is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am a lover of uncontained and immortal beauty." CHAPTER X PIETY "We love the venerable house Our fathers... | |
 | ARTHUR KENYON ROGERS - 1923 - 498 pages
...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; I am part and particle of God." The ethics which Emerson deduces from such a conception is first of all one of... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 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 Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest fr end sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to... | |
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