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
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, and we return to reason and faith." " The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." For saying such things as these he was accused of Pantheism. And he was a Pantheist, — yet I think... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
....nothing ; I see all; the currents. o£ the Universal JBeing circulate through me ; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then...then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of nnpfmtamprl t|Tlf| immnrtal Viaflpty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than... | |
| Cunningham Geikie - 1887 - 244 pages
...whitewash . . . and heaven itself a decoy." Elsewhere he gives his estimate of himself, thus : " I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and parcel of God." Can you make any sense of this ? Is there any sense in it ? It is a favorite theme... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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...then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances,—master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained... | |
| Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1888 - 404 pages
...change and pass.' So, speaking of the contemplation of Nature : — ' 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,' &c. Angelus says, in virtue of his ideal sonship, — I am as great as God, and he as small as I ;... | |
| Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 320 pages
...whitewash . . . and heaven itself a decoy." Elsewhere he gives his estimate of himself, thus : " I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and parcel of God." Can you make any sense of this ? Is there any sense in it ? It is a favourite theme... | |
| Joseph Forster - 1890 - 192 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 name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental. To be brothers,... | |
| Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 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 name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental. To be brothers,... | |
| Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 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...The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign or accidental. To be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 296 pages
...Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds there foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances...then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of unconlained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness I find something more dear and connate than in streets... | |
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