| Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 pagine
...Emerson's injunction "Trust thyself; for he did not believe, as Emerson wrote in "Self-Reliance," that "When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." Zenobia speaks for him in her final impassioned accusation of Hollingsworth: "Self, self, self! You... | |
| James McCorkle - 1990 - 608 pagine
...exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. ... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. What fascinates me in those lines is the assumption, in slow and equal iambs, of equal status among... | |
| Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pagine
...(FC, 223). From Emerson's "SelfReliance" he quotes a description of the self extending beyond one: "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which...truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage of its beams" (FC, 227). "Today," Duncan says, "in 1979, reading that essay, I find again how Emersonian... | |
| James Campbell - 1995 - 328 pagine
...Dewey was 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...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity" ("Self-Reliance," Complete Works, vol. 2, 64). 4Cf. James Hayden Tufts: "Man without friendship, love,... | |
| Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pagine
...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,... | |
| Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pagine
...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... | |
| Randall E. Auxier - 2000 - 318 pagine
...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,... | |
| Edward V. Tuttle - 2000 - 214 pagine
...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... | |
| Daniel M. Savage - 2002 - 244 pagine
...through different individuals who tap into its universal natural force through their intuitive faculties. "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which...discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow passage of its beams. "52 In this particular aspect of their thought, romanticists are reminiscent... | |
| Mike Millard - 2001 - 212 pagine
...wouldn't they? 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...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.... | |
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