...and demigods whom history worships, we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance. Though in our lonely hours, we draw a new strength out of their...Then is it glad, young, and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light...

...and even the prayers, of others.89 Through such solitary introspection, Emerson asserted, the self "gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely,...condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it."91 The inward turn to find the revelation of the Over-Soul to the human soul provides the context...

...and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance. Though in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of their...Then is it glad, young and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light...

...seemed beyond the usual categories of experience? Have you had the sense that "all things go well"? The soul gives itself, alone, original, and pure,...gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. Then it is glad, young, and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious,...

...and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance. Though in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of their...yet, pressed on our attention, as they are by the thoughdess and customary, they fatigue and invade. The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure,...

...and demigods -whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance. Though in our lonely hours -we draw a new strength out of their...Then is it glad, young, and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light...

...plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself. It believes in itself. . . . The soul gives itself, alone, original, and pure,...gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. Then it is glad, young, and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious,...

...condition of "entire possession," and in a visionary declaration he proclaimed infinite human possibility. "The soul gives itself alone, original, and pure,...condition, gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. ... Behold, it saith, I am born into the great, the universal mind. . . . More and more the surges...

...every object perceived is "perfect" in that it enables the soul to transcend itself and join with God: "The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure,...condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it" (215). At the sublime moment, the human soul, no matter how self-reliant, idiosyncratic, or original,...

...history of the world; the baubles of the child's play ingrained as law; innocence which results when the "soul gives itself, alone, original, and pure, to the Lonely, Original, and Pure").There is, moreover, another reason that the representation of moments of ravishment is disorienting....