The 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. Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 64by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...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,"... | |
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