...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and...

...discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. The relations of the Soul to the divine spirit are...should communicate, not one thing, but all things... Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away—means, teachers, texts,...

...discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. The relations of the Soul to the divine spirit are...should communicate, not one thing, but all things... Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away — means, teachers, texts,...

...discourse, as all human utterance was, in fact, supposed to strive to do. Emerson writes in 'SelfReliance': 'It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate,...but all things; should fill the world with his voice . . . and new create the whole' (II, 65-66). In The Rhetoric of American Romance, Evan Carton notes...

...mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. [...] The relations ofthe soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps." in: „Self-Reliance", Porte (ed.), 1983: 257-282, 259; 269. 91 It is in vain that we look for genius...

...with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. . . . The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to interpose helps. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays Clear contrasts now emerge. Traditional...

...external sources. Why always seek to interpose human help between our souls and God? Emerson says: "The relations of the soul to the Divine Spirit are so pure that it is profane to interpose helps. . . . Whenever a mind is simple and receives Divine Wisdom, then old things pass away—...

...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and...

...assistance in making the picture. The metaphysical issues involved are perhaps best phrased by Emerson: "The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps."14 William James has reminded us that "the oddly-named thing pragmatism . . . can remain religious...

...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh he 62 should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should...