...inferior incarnation of God in the unconscious." VII. " The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or blank that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye. The axis of vision is not coincident with...

...inferior incarnation of God in the unconscious." VII. "The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or blank that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye. The axis of vision is not coincident with...

...and surfaces become transparent, and are no longer seen; causes and spirits are seen through them. The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. The axis of things is not coincident with the axis of vision, and so they appear not transparent, but opaque. And...

...only "colossally." "The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty," Emerson says, "is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin...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...

...to reader, or from time to time even by the same reader, Emerson recognized, "The ruin or the blank we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye....not transparent but opaque. The reason why the world lacks unity is .... because man is disunited with himself" (W 1:73-74). In this idea is combined the...

...learned desires, this self must stand aside — which makes sense when you remember what the problem was. The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. So if not the self, who do we rely on? Like any poet, Emerson suggests his answer in a writerly way,...

...174); and P], 1 : 198, from which this ("Winter Walk") passage derives. See also Emerson in Nature: "The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (CW, 1 :43). 12 Martin Heidegger, "Building Dwelling Thinking," in Poetry, Language, Thought,...

...passage of the "Nature" of chapter i; the structure of the book, like Finnegans Wake, is circular.8 "The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye" (73). This sentence diagnoses what we suffer when we fail to let our eyeballs become transparent. "The...

...miracles of enthusiasm, the wisdom of children. . . . The problem of restoring to the -uorld original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul." The above is an utterance as true and deep as it is beautiful and poetic. And here in this ancient and...

..."Orphic Poet's" difficult formula near the end of Nature: "The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by the redemption of...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (43). The way into this passage lies not so much through the figure of "coincidence" as through...