...unmediated. Inward and outward senses, mind and eye, are adjusted to one another. It is in this way that "the laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass" (CollW, 1:21; emphasis added)—when the object of the eye and the object of the mind are one and the...

...orderly control of his own transcendent entry into a larger universe, where, as Emerson has reminded us "The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass."51 These surfaces too are glass-like. The luminist painter, like Emerson's poet "turns the world...

...Emerson, in 'radical correspondence'. The universe itself is 'emblematic', not just words and grammar. 'Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind'.14 Transparency reveals that language is an operation of nature. This 'radical correspondence'...

...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole...