...Carlyle, possibly unconsciously, became a follower of the great •The same is true of Emerson who says: " I am nothing. I see all; the currents of the universal being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." f " The first thing that we notice in this formative process of idolatry is the confounding...

...Standing on the bare ground, I , — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted ''- into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball ; I am nothing ; I sce all ; the currents of the Universal Bcing cireulate i through me ; I am part or pareel of God....

...repair. 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...brothers, to be acquaintances, — master or servant, ia then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness,...

...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,...

...especially in the presence of nature, this contact of the individual soul with the absolute is felt. "All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God." The existence and attributes of God are not deducible from history or from natural...

...is 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...

...repair. 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...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers,...

...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;...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers,...

...fair accidents and effects which change and pass.' So, speaking of the contemplation of Nature : — ' I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see...Universal Being 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...

...regarded by the wise, as not differing from, but as the same as themselves." Emerson puts it, — " I am nothing, I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me : I am part and parcel of God." Hegel's formula is — " Being and Thought are the same ;" and thus God is a process...