 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; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part...  The United Presbyterian Magazine - Page 571848Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...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, — yet I think... | |
 | 1952 - 650 pages
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 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1887 - 244 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...my eyes), which nature cannot 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 eye-ball^ .Lam .nothing ; I see all; the currents. o£ the Universal JBeing circulate through me ; I am part... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers, to be acquaintances,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...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;...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances,—master... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1888 - 404 pages
...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...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 as small as I ;... | |
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