...times into a mysticism as bewildering as that of any Persian Sofi or Hindu Brahmin, as where he says, "The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and object, are one." Restraining Grace of Common Sense.— These perhaps were the ecstatic expressions...

...virtue, and power, and beauty. We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole ; the wise silence...exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, ia not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing, and the thing seen, the...

...As that close, analytic thinker, George Henry Lewes, said: All Phenomena Facts of Consciousness. 175 either case we declare that the objective world is...and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. — Emerson. TIME is like a ship that never anchors. While I am on board, I had better do those...

...most certain knowledge is not of matter, but of mind; indeed, our knowledge is confined to "facts of WITHIN man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;...and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. — Emerson. TIME is like a ship that never anchors. While I am on board, I had better do those...

...virtue, and power, and beauty. We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime, within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;...and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of...

...includes Spinoza, Goethe, Shelley, and Emerson. " Within man is the soul of the whole," says Emerson; " the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every...and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one." The Inquisition in 1600 would have burned Emerson for those two sentences. Coming to details,...

...seeing, or without caring, whither such speculations logically lead. " Within man," he tells us, " is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal...particle is equally related — the eternal One." This is genuine Pantheism, and should carry with it the doctrine that all actions are equally good,...

...seeing, or without caring, whither such speculations logically lead. " Within man," he tells us, " is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal...beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related—the eternal One." This is genuine Pantheism, and should carry with it the doctrine that all...

...the same essay, when speaking of the contemplation of the Eternal Spirit in Nature, he affirms that " the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one." If it be Pantheism to destroy the distinction between the Creator and the creature, to merge...

...Compare Each and All with " Nothing is quite beautiful alone " (Nature, Chap. III.) ; Brahma, with " The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one " ( The Over-Soul) ; Merlin with the essay The Poet ; Days with " They > come and go like muffled...