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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...power in which we exist and whose beatitude is accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the se and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. V see the world piece by piece, as the sun,... | |
| Walter W. Raymond - 1927 - 92 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." Before man can enjoy the completeness of his life he must know this eternal unity and he must have... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1928 - 324 pages
...preserved in a clipping with no date or source indicated). Emerson appears to approximate the tertium quid: "The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one" (The Prose Works of Emerson, Boston, 1883, 1, 358). Whitman seems at one time to have held a somewhat... | |
| Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...the Soul slept in the beams of Light. 123 "Art", CW II, p. 209, cf. "The Over-Soul", CW II, p. 160: "The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one." 124 Cf. hierzu die Ausführungen Feidelsons in Symbolism and American Literature, pp. 126 f., der Emersons... | |
| Perry Tilleraas - 1988 - 404 pages
...uncover the secret dreams of my heart, hold them up to the light, and follow them wherever they lead. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon,...animal, the tree; but the Whole, of which these are shining parts, is the Soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson It's no wonder that sometimes we feel fragmented... | |
| Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - 1988 - 372 pages
...declares in his great essay on the Over-Soul, there is the eternal ONE, 'and in this deep power. . . the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and...the spectacle, the subject and the object are one'. According to the same logic, as he said over and over in many ways, the worshipper is one with the... | |
| Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...Sphinx is the object of the Poet's vision and also, as she says, his spirit and his eyebeam. She is "the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object." 47 Therefore her transformations in external nature also dramatize the fundamental law of perception,... | |
| Edward Abbey - 1988 - 242 pages
...passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the tree, the animal; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul. Our faith comes... | |
| Steven C. Rockefeller - 1991 - 712 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. 4 In this fashion Emerson and his followers sought to unify, or interrelate, humanity and God, humanity... | |
| J. C. Chatterji - 1992 - 172 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. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Over- Soul Part II The universe produced from the one undivided Atman by the... | |
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