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" ... of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For the sense... "
Essays: First series - Page 57
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pages
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...with them, and proceedeth obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceedeth. We first share the life by which things exist, and...appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...their life and being also proceedeth. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterward see them as appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration...
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Select Essays and Addresses, Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceed? obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the foundation of action and thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, ail things find their common origin. For the sense some solitary wilderness, far from all mankind, sweetly...often of a sudden kindle up, as it were, a sweet cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared then- cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs ii of that inspiration...
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Emerson: A Study of the Poet as Seer

Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...which analysis cannot go, all things find their final origin. For the sense of being which in calm hour rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse...appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause. . . . We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers...
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Art and Archaeology, Volumes 9-10

1920 - 618 pages
...the universe that gives supreme satisfaction, that "sense of being which [175] ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, .... but one with them. " Thus are we liberated from the shackles of our lesser selves, for "when souls...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. For the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how,...appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which...
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