 | Phil Oliver - 2001 - 296 pages
...universal reliance may be grounded? What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star . . . which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and...actions, if the least mark of independence appear? Emerson, Self-Reliance The Purity of Pure Experience Here, again, is where we have been, where we are,... | |
 | Bill Beckley - 2001 - 286 pages
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 | Bill Beckley - 2001 - 280 pages
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 | Steven Meyer - 2001 - 486 pages
...science-baffling star, without parallax, without calculable elements, which shoots a ray of beauty into trivial and impure actions, if the least mark of independence appear? (EL, p. 268) What are we to make of this? What does it make of us? First, it is true that Emerson possessed... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 2001 - 317 pages
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 | Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 pages
...on which a universal reliance may be grounded?" he wrote in his famed essay, "Self- Reliance." "... The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence...wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions."43 Here Emerson challenged the valorization of rational willpower that underlay political-economic... | |
 | George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...praise in order to encourage, so he says that the "aboriginal Self in each, the unknowable inner power, "shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure...actions, if the least mark of independence appear" ("Self-Reliance," p. 268). He labors to love labor, and succeeds partly. However, he says in "The Poet:"... | |
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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. 
