 Meantime within man is the soul of the whole ; the wise silence ; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related ; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only...  Essays - Page 245by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1884 - 622 pages
...power in which we exist ; and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. ... In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common... | |
 | William Icrin Gill - 1886 - 324 pages
...besides myself, they are purely extra-mundane. As says Emerson (Essays, First Series, p. 2i5), "The art of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and object, are one." But that does not include God and all beings, as he imagines, but only one man, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing, and...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. It is only by the vision of that Wisdom, that the horoscope of the ages can be read, and it is only... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 228 pages
...virtue of its interpenetration by a single divine essence, and that one soul animates all mankind. " We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon,...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. . . . From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1888 - 404 pages
...which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen,...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.' And again : — ' Time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. A man is capable... | |
 | A. O. Butler - 1889 - 448 pages
...power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the...the spectacle, the subject and the object are one." " What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him,... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...Ibid. Vol. II., p. 4S. as bewildering as that of any Persian Sou, or Hindoo Brahmin, as where he says: "The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and object, are one." These perhaps were the ecstatic expressions of an exhilarated enthusiasm. Emerson... | |
 | 1890 - 880 pages
...power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us. is not only selfsufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one." The Inquisition in 1600 would have burned Emerson for those two sentences. Coming to details, we find... | |
 | Frederick Blount Mott - 1893 - 100 pages
...times into a mysticism as bewildering as that of any Persian Sofi or Hindu Brahmin, as where he says, "The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and object, are one." Restraining Grace of Common Sense.— These perhaps were the ecstatic expressions... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing, and...of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. It is only by the vision of that Wisdom, that the horoscope of the ages can be read, and it is only... | |
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