...the fair accidents and effects which change and pass." So, speaking of the contemplation of Nature: "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see...circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God," 2 etc. With Plotinus and the other mystics, he teaches the doctrine of passive reception. "I desire,...

...my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. 1 become a transparent eye-ball ; I am nothing ; I see...Universal Being circulate through ' me ; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds 4hen foreign and accidental : to be brothers,...

...nature, this contact of the individual soul with the absolute is felt. "All mean egotism vanishes, f become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see...the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God." The existence and attributes of God are not deducible from history or from natural...

...of the towers and spires of which we have already taken account. Emerson said that, in the woods, " a man casts off his years as the snake his slough,...circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God." Emerson here expresses his feeling of what Matthew Arnold called " Nature's healing power". I have...

...air, and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through...particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds there foreign and accidental ; to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle...

...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...

...impression, when the mind is open to their influence. ... In the woods, we return to reason and faith. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." l In such moments of insight the religious man finds an added inspiration in the thought that he is...

...having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Out of the lower into the higher, out of sense-consciousness into cosmic consciousness, out of organization...

...expression of pantheism which brought such ridicule upon Emerson at the outset of his career. "I am a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the...the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and parcel of God" (I, 16). But Emerson soon perceived a danger in this point of view. The individual...

...the flowing through me of the great tide of Being. "Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed in the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,...the universal being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God." The ethics which Emerson deduces from such a conception is first of all one of...