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" 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 ;... "
Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 12
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 315 pages
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Initial Studies in American Letters

Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 pages
...the absolute is felt. " All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; 1 see all; the currents of 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...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 190 pages
...soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins." " I become a transparent eyeball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and particle of God." " In me is the sucker that I see," exclaims Thoreau ; and, of Walden Pond " I...
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American Literature

Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 456 pages
...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 and particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers,...
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Nineteenth Century Questions

James Freeman Clarke - 1897 - 388 pages
...Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reigns, and we return to reason and faith." " The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part and particle of God." For saying such things as these he was accused of Pantheism. And he was a Pantheist...
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Metropolitan Pulpit, Volume 35

1898 - 588 pages
...observation and experience of, practically, the entire world, including himself. Emerson writes : " The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part and particle of God. " This is transcendentalism at least. It looks much like that skeptical Pantheism...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental : to be brothers,...
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Christian Mysticism: Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the ...

William Ralph Inge - 1899 - 402 pages
...imperfect, adore my own Perfect. I am receptive of the great soul. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the universal Being circulate through me. I am part of God"; and much more to the same effect. This is not the language of those who have travelled up...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ...

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 390 pages
...universe as the "externization of the soul." 1 But this is because he does not sharply sever God from Man. "The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." 2 "The soul in man ... is not the intellect or the will, but . . . the background of our being, in...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ...

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 400 pages
...as the "externization of the soul.".1' But this is because he does not sharply sever God from Man. "The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."2 "The soul in man ... is not the intellect or the will, but . . . the background of our being,...
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Modern Culture, Volume 13

William W. Hudson, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1901 - 650 pages
...uplifted into the infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God." Such abstractions were common in The Dial, and against such did the hard-headed Scotchman...
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