 ... spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious. But it differs from the body in one important respect. It is not, like that, now subjected to the human will. Its serene order is inviolable...  Nature - Seite 63von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 74 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Arthur Versluis - 2001 - 240 Seiten
..."Spirit," when he writes that although "the world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man," "as we degenerate, the contrast between us and our house is more evident."43 By implication, then, "regeneration" means reunion between us and nature, a reunion in... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 Seiten
...Creator, himself become a " creator in the finite." "As we degenerate, the contrast between us and oar house is more evident. We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God. We do aot understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and the tiger rend... | |
 | David Burak, Roger Gilbert - 2005 - 380 Seiten
...subjected to the human will. Its serene order is inviolable by us. It is, therefore, to us, the present expositor of the divine mind. It is a fixed point whereby we may measure our departure. Emerson's fixed point oscillates dialectically in Ammons's "Hymn." Where Emerson's mode hovers always... | |
 | Jennifer Mason - 2005 - 262 Seiten
...Nature (1836), in which Emerson links humans' alienation from God to our alienation from wild animals. "We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God," Emerson writes. "We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the... | |
 | David Michael Kleinberg-Levin - 2005 - 540 Seiten
...he himself avers, coming close to experiencing the alienation of the poet, it cannot be denied that "we are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God"?24 In another late poem fragment bearing the title "Vom Abgrund nemlich ..." ("Setting out from... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - 2007 - 640 Seiten
...the human "house," and it was a house from which it was possible to become more and more estranged. "As we degenerate, the contrast between us and our...as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God."144 The mystical-moral analysis carried, still again, a pragmatic thrust, and it led to a program... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 Seiten
...It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious." Therefore, "We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God" and, by implication, aliens from ourselves. 59 The natural world would eventually become for Emerson... | |
 | Christian Schäfer - 2007 - 42 Seiten
...inclines towards degeneration. Man should rather compare himself to nature than to another man because "[w]e are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God" (39). 3.4 Appeal to the Reader Emerson draws Nature to a close with an outlook to the future development.... | |
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