...themselves. The emptiness seen in night skies is finally a mere reflection of an inward blankness: "The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye," writes Emerson in Nature, going further in "SelfReliance" (1839): "A man should learn to detect and...

...follows the transition in Emerson's "Nature" from the early "transparent eyeball" to the idea that the "ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye."12 But Whitman does not end his poem where Emerson and Wordsworth left their ruminations. In spite...

...Nature the division between body and soul that Whitman, in this passage, claims to heal: "The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (E and L 47). According to Emerson, it is only during rare and privileged moments of vision,...

...Nature, where "the redemption of the soul" supplies the correct point of view. Without such redemption, "the axis of vision is not coincident with the axis...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (CW 1:43). Like Kant, Emerson insists that freedom, the sine qua non of morality, is "known"...

...problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is because man is disunited...

...self, as an inhabitant of such vital, extensive ground. Myra Jehlen sum104. See, eg, ibid., i : 73 -74: "The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken...heaps, is because man is disunited with himself." See also Edman 1926, 417, or Gilman 1960-82, 7:304. 105. Fredrickson 1965, 10-15; Bercovitch 1985,...

...problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in otir own eye. The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and so they appear not...

...in a peculiar sort of dizziness, indeed a sort of vertigo. As Emerson writes in Nature, the ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake. (43) Even more disorienting is the passage in the much later essay "Experience," where Emerson...

...rather than land. Property, like beauty, was in the eye of the beholder, not the deed of the proprietor. "The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye," Emerson wrote. "... The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

...richest of them—to the study of nature, and that is why he ddes not penetrate very far, and he says: "The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things." When he wishes to explain how all the moral and physical truths are contained in each other, and each...