...see Life only avails, not the having lived, what strong intellects dare not yet hear Power c«ases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from But now we are a mob. Man does not •a past to a new state, in the shooting of stand in awe of man,...

...time they can use words as good when occasion comes. If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is аз transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting...This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds...

...who declared, with a candor I see as more truly typical of the interior than of settled New England: Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the snooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes:...

...soul," for James such surcease is not truth but death. Truth lies with life, and life with power, which "ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to a new aim."12 Nietzsche also posed the question of truth's value to philosophy, and sought an answer...

...be daffy, impulsive, or slightly dangerous. He fulfills Emerson's conception of power as movement: "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past into a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates,...

...to occupy: never, to borrow from Bloom's preferred precursor, "in the instant of repose," but always "in the moment of transition from a past to a new...the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim" (Emerson 1957, 158). In this context, "influence" indeed becomes a term applicable to other voices...

...God, since its power derives from its own internal movements. To repeat Emerson in "Self-Reliance," "power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides...moment of transition from a past to a new state." James's pragmatism looks back to the two American writers he most admired — Emerson with his transitions,...

...to a kind of power through the economicsof transparency. "Power," Emerson statesin "Self-Reliance," "resides in the moment of transition from a past to...the shooting of the gulf; in the darting to an aim" (CW2:40). But of course the switch of focus, the darting across a conceptual threshold, is beyond visible...

...its own" (CW, 1:128). This translation is thinking, one that maintains its power by perpetuation, for "power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides...the moment of transition from a past to a new state" (CW, 2:4.0). But that perpetuation takes the form of permutation, of change from state to state, from...

...knew something about power too: "Power ceases in the instant of repose. It resides in the movement of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim."20 Not theoretical, not political, enough? Exactly so, 19 KSi. 20 Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance,"...