...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...

...binocular vision that restores to the world "original and eternal beauty."89 For, as Emerson continues, "The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake." Reasserting the vitality of his chosen role, Emerson warns that "he cannot be a naturalist,...

...the self and the outside world, as we look at it through lenses that do not converge: "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. The reason why the world lacks unity and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited...

...he has termed the "problem of doubleconsciousness": The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. The axis of vision is not coincident with...

...God? Do you find the universal coming to life in you? The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by the redemption of...not transparent but opaque. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is because man is disunited with himself. He cannot be a...

...is we ourselves who blanch the excellence of the external world through human defects of character: "The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (E, 47). For Milton, by contrast, we do not see enough white, since the "Eternal Coeternal beam"...

..."to more earnest vision." Mounting to his splendid peroration in "Prospects," Emerson reminds us that "the ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake." A cleansing of our vision is all that is required for "the redemption of the soul." In such...

...Emerson is referring to when he writes, in Nature, that "The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by the redemption of...when we look at nature, is in our own eye. [...] The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself....

...the metaphoric energies are absorbed by each figure, reflecting no greater glory. We are left with "the ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature," when man is "disunited with himself."24 Thus: the anguish of concreteness, when the discourse between...

...despondent Coleridge's ability to look at but "not feel" the beauty of nature, Emerson insists that "the ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye." The asserted polarity between one's inner life and the world without has broken down; Emerson deplores...