 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 - 1876 - 382 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 - 1876 - 504 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 - 1876 - 386 pages
...beliefs.1 It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.2 That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards...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 - 1876 - 380 pages
...beliefs.1 It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.2 That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards...We have;' learned that we do not see directly, but medi-\ ately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 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...computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power ; perhaps there are no objects. Once we lived in what we saw ;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 282 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 - 1883 - 326 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 - 1903 - 376 pages
...beliefs.1 It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.2 That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards...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 - 1904 - 362 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... | |
 | William Temple - 1913 - 360 pages
...following an evil purpose is a great deal lower than the beasts. " It is very unhappy," says Emerson, " but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made,...exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man." We compare ourselves with other people, with our own past and with what we hope we may become ; we... | |
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