...Nature says — he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me." "Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God." "Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature,...

...powers, can he prepare for the "transparency" that will follow immediately in his most notorious passage: "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see...all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate •99 through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...

...blithe air and uplifted into infinite spaee. all mean egutism vamshes. I hecome a transparent eyehall; I am nothing; I see all: the currents of the Universal Being circulate tbrough me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental;...

...transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson touches upon this idea in his journals: 'Standing on bare ground,' he says, 'my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.'9 The transparent eyeball becomes an expression to denote the experience of the miracle...

...infamous) sentences in his "Nature." "Standing on the bare ground," Emerson wrote, "my head bathed in the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space —...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God."10 The Transcendentalists of the Concord Circle were all inspired by the image of Emerson's...

...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;...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. 17 It is as if this passage is seminal to Johnson's corpus. In order to "see all," the self becomes...

...importantly it accomplishes Whitman's version ofthat Emersonian feat expressed in Nature, in which "all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God" (£, 10). In the poem's sister catalogue, section 9, the listed imperatives reveal the...

..."Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into the infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball;...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God." According to Emerson, nature stands outside us, but it is also part of us and calls...

...trust religious traditions and institutions. Emerson famously presents his mystic vision in Nature: "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."19 This vision gives Emerson confidence that when he relies on himself he is not, in fact, placing...

...greater being. As Emerson puts it in that most famous passage in American letters, the self becomes "a transparent eye-ball": "I am nothing; I see all;...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." But where Emerson experiences a vanishing of mean egotism, where he finds a higher ethic or a better...