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" 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... "
Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 215
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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Mind, Volume 1

1898 - 404 pages
...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 thing seen,...and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.—Emerson. TIME is like a ship that never anchors. While I am on board, I had better do those...
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Throne-makers

William Roscoe Thayer - 1899 - 350 pages
...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 thing seen,...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...
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The Theology of Modern Literature

Samuel Law Wilson - 1899 - 476 pages
...the same essay, when speaking of the contemplation of the Eternal Spirit in Nature, he affirms that " the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one." If it be Pantheism to destroy the distinction between the Creator and the creature, to merge God in...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ...

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 400 pages
...Compare Each and All with " Nothing is quite beautiful alone " (Nature, Chap. III.) ; Brahma, with " The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one " ( The Over-Soul) ; Merlin with the essay The Poet ; Days with " They > come and go like muffled and...
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Man and the Divine Order: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion and in ...

Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...classed as a mystic in the negative sense. In the Over-soul he indulges in such expressions as these: "The act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one." With him the term "soul" meant interchangeably God or man; and in some sentences he practically loses...
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Pathological Aspects of Religions

Josiah Morse - 1906 - 284 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 of...
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The Makers of English Prose

William James Dawson - 1906 - 324 pages
...spiritual, or of the universal soul. " We see the world," he writes, "piece by piece, as the sun, the L moon, the animal, the tree ; but the whole, 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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

George Edward Woodberry - 1907 - 252 pages
...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 thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree ; but the whole,...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 pages
...which we exist and whose beatitude is aH accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen,...object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the son. the moon, the animal the tree: hot the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the souL...
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The Crucible of Modern Thought: What is Going Into It; what is Happening ...

William Walker Atkinson - 1910 - 228 pages
...wise silence; the universal beauty ; to which every part an65 particle is equally related; the Eternal One. ... We see the world piece by piece, as the sun,...animal, the tree ; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul." He holds that the individual soul may, and does, hold communion with the...
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