 It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.* That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards we suspect our instruments. We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have...  Works - Page 99by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs. It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...oldest beliefs. It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that wv exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these... | |
 | 1845 - 688 pages
...universe, that we have not arrived at a wall, but at interminable oceans." SUBJECT OR THE ONE. — " It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorted lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...universe, that we have not arrived at a wall, but at interminable oceans." SUBJECT OB THE ONE. — " It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorted lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...personality of the Spirit of God is denied, and his office becomes a hypothetical symbol ! : •//• ' It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man. We have learned that we do not. see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs. It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...made, that we exist. That discovery is called the Pall of Man. Ever afterwards, we suspect our instruments. We have learned that we do not see directly,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 286 pages
...them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs. It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs. It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs. It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs. It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Maa. Ever afterwards, we suspect our instruments. We have learned that we do not see directly, but... | |
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