...Yet Unapproachable America, p. 43; and see "The Argument of the Ordinary," p. 83. Compare Emerson: "The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at...things, and so they appear not transparent but opaque" (Selected Essays, p. 79). 52. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, trans. RJ Hollingdale and...

...to its "original and eternal beauty" through the redemption of the soul. In his famous formulation, "the ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake [sie]. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is...

...problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Whilst the abstract question occupies...

...his deep study and assimilation of the bases of Romantic thinking, he was aware of what was at stake: The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited...

...soul," by which Emerson means the transformation of an individual's perceptual categories. "The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (Essays, 46, 47). The "occult relationship" between human beings and nature already exists and...

...spiritual enervation that pervaded American society at the time. As Emerson observes in Nature (1836), "The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken...heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself." 16 To look within and access the divinity that is part of every person's being, "the eternal One,"...