 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - English poetry - 1911 - 300 pages
...little tract by sketching roughly ' that wonderful congruity which exists between man and the world. ' ' Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. ... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. . . . The... | |
 | Kevin Hart, Geoffrey H. Hartman - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 252 pages
...primacy." Le Pas au-delà (Paris: Gallimard, 1973), 124-25. 8. Steven Shapiro quotes Emerson's "Nature": "All mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all." He adds, "The narcissistic integrity of the ego is less important than the purity of sight itself."... | |
 | William R. Hutchison - Religion - 2003 - 294 pages
...Emerson in his most famous prose piece, "Nature," had averred that "standing on the bare ground . . . and uplifted into infinite space,— all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball." Later in the same essay he reported, "I expand and live in the warm day, like corn and melons." Cranch... | |
 | Finis Dunaway - History - 2005 - 271 pages
...offering the observer spiritual enlightenment and a pathway to the deity. As Emerson famously declared in Nature: "Standing on the bare ground, — my head...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Although the Darwinian revolution revealed a nature indifferent to human desires and meanings,... | |
 | Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald - Nature - 2005 - 234 pages
...befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes.) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground. - my head bathed by the...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - Architecture - 2009 - 584 pages
...quasi-pantheistic notion of an "Over-Soul" (divine spirit) of which humanity is but an extension or projection: "Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...Being circulate through me: I am part or particle of God." He borrowed the notion of the transcendental from Kant, who used it to characterize a class of... | |
 | Rebecca Krinke - Architecture - 2005 - 238 pages
...feel that nothing can befal me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity . . . which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.21 Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson here speaks of the tremendous regenerative power that nature holds... | |
 | David Burak, Roger Gilbert - Education - 2005 - 380 pages
...when most alone. In a famous passage from his essay "Nature" he describes an epiphany in the forest: Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend then sounds foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to... | |
 | Richard S. Gilbert - Church group work - 2005 - 118 pages
...forebears, believed in a direct experience of divinity. In one classic passage Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God. Clarke, Emerson, and Channing wrote that the nineteenth-century feminist writer... | |
 | John Herlihy - Religion - 2005 - 224 pages
...American Transcendentalist Emerson who understood himself to be an organ of universal vision: "Standing on bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God." 10 As visionary organ of the senses as well as mediating symbol leading toward higher... | |
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Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part... 
