...offered the position at the University of Chicago in 1894, in part at least, 3 Cf. Emerson: "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity" ("Self-Reliance," Complete Works, vol. 2, 64). 4Cf. James Hayden Tufts: "Man without friendship, love,...

...it is virtue; when it flows through his affections it is love." (Oversoul.) "We lie in the lap of an immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of...truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage of its beams." ( Self-Reliance.) "The soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature,...

...is virtue ; when it flows through his affections it is love." (Oversoul.) "We lie in the lap of an immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of...When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothin-r of ourselves, but allow a passage of its beams." ( Self-Reliance.) "The soul's communication...

...soul, to hear Emerson glorifying the Oversoul: "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence," he says, "which makes us receivers of its truth and organs...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." (Self -Reliance, p. 56, quoted, too, by James in his Human Immortality.) There were no doubt two Emersons,...

...Mind common to all men, and each is an outlet to it, and to all of it" and, "We lie in the lap of an Immense Intelligence which makes us receivers of Its Truth, and organs of Its Activity." Contemplating Emerson's words we might see that we are like individual computer terminals in a vast...

...The desire for justice seems to live within us all. Emerson wrote in "Self-Reliance" that we "lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers...discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow the passage of its beams." Yoshi has said as much. These are not Western values, but belong to everyone....

...individuals who tap into its universal natural force through their intuitive faculties. "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers...discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow passage of its beams. "52 In this particular aspect of their thought, romanticists are reminiscent...

...extracorporeal, terms. "Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom," he writes: "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity" (EL, p. 269). Like the paradigmatically mystical experience recounted half a dozen years earlier in...

...world as sacred. The same can be true for us now. CHAPTER 6 THE SHAPE OF THE SACRED WORLD We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON The foundation of druidic thought is the universal harmony of beings and things...

...system of natural connections, and finally that my duration be endless. — Imraanuel Kant We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson I am my own first cause, both of my eternal being and of my temporal being....