...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,...

...freedom from the positive. This objection is like something Emerson likes to say, as in "Self- Reliance": "This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that . . . shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside") The taint of villainy functions to acknowledge a background...

...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,"...

...Emerson's historical poetics, it coincides with what he calls "Power." As he explains in "Self-Reliance": "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from the past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim" (W, 2: 69). Or, as...

...and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and what is called life and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases...degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why...

...many American imaginations. Emerson provides one key formulation of the metaphor in "Self-Reliance": "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides...the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim" (EL 271). Repose is a figure here for the deadening grip of habit. Once we settle into a condition...

...the present, to seize the day. "Life only avails, not the having lived," he says in "Self-Reliance." "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides...from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf."16 Nature for Emerson was a theory of the nature of things - how things are; it was a guide to...

...within literary texts. ITINERANT TEXTS 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. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance") In his "Textual Note" to Sisters of the Spirit, the anthology...