...half-hidden agenda becomes primary, as well as epistemological rather than entrepreneurial, priority: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...nature, this primary figure is repeated without end"— or so the belated poet says, taking back from Copernicus an outrageous opthalmocentrism, and making...

...small circle is quite as infinite as a large circle. Orthodoxy The Maniac (p. 33) Emerson, Ralph Waldo The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. The Complete Essays and other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays Circles (p. 279) Pope, Alexander...

...around the geometry of the circle. The essay opens with the image of a series of ever-expanding circles: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...nature this primary figure is repeated without end" (EL 4o3). Thus Emerson sets up a dialectic interplay (his own frequent image is an "oscillation") between...

...character that they would bear under the stress of a Cartesian madness. "The eye," as Emerson knows it, "is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is...throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end."65 He also says, in another essay, that "there is a property in the horizon which no man has but...

...broken because "everything is medial," and become himself the means to enlargement. Emerson wrote that "the eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second." Close-up shots establish the first circle with monotonous frequency, and so do long shots, especially...

...communion, and for each actor, the path to reaggregation is defined. 4 THE SPHERE OF THOUGHT AND FEELING The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...nature this primary figure is repeated without end. ...Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; ... there...

..."Circles," which focuses specifically on their correspondences and their ontological significance: The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose center was everywhere and its circumference nowhere. (Complete Essays 279) We have seen how in Merleau-Ponty's...

...self and world that recalls the selfs merger with the All accomplished by the transparent eyeball: 'The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is die second" (Emerson 1992, 252). That all roads lead to the Golden Day suggests die inevitability of...

...is closer to the Emerson of Circles as an artist than to Ramana Maharshi or Tibetan iconographers. "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world." These opening lines of Emerson's essay might be the motto of Phenomena. Some pages later, he forecasts...

...beginning of the essay this sense of movement and transition is created by the texture of the prose: "The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it...of the world. St. Augustine described the nature of the God as a circle whose centre was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere" (p. 403). The first...