 ... counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect,...  Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 195by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Dasarath - 2002 - 200 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when...All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us." ironed out, others may be accentuated. The process may highlight the... | |
 | Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 390 pages
...breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; and when it flows through his affection, it is love. And...when the individual would be something of himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson What does it mean that man is a machine? It means that he has no independent... | |
 | Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 pages
...as the basis of moral action in political economy represented, to Emerson, self-deception. "[T] he blindness of the intellect begins, when it would be...of himself. All reform aims, in some one particular way, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey."47 What one obeyed,... | |
 | 156 pages
...aware that we are nothing, but the light is all When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. ... All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when...All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey. Of this pure nature every man is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when...All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey. —THE OVER-SOUL How would you... | |
 | william george bryant ph.d - 2005 - 576 pages
...through his action, -would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when...All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other -words, to engage us to obey. Of this pure nature every man... | |
 | Wilfrid J. Harrington - 2005 - 116 pages
...through intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through will, it is virtue; when it flows through affection, it is love. And the blindness of the intellect...when the individual would be something of himself (herself). All reform aims in some one particular way to let the soul have its ways through us." What... | |
 | Sharon Cameron - 2009 - 282 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when...intellect begins, when it would be something of itself. (O 386—87) The passage is precise in its analysis of how this power (not an organ, like Descartes's... | |
 | John W. Casperson - 2007 - 156 pages
...whose organ he is, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect it is genius. When it breathes through his will it is virtue. When it flows through his affection it is love."—Walt Whitman. Organized religion usurps a brokerage fee of spirit through tithe or emotional... | |
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