 All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison — but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the...  Essays, First Series - Page 248by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison,—but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect... | |
 | John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 348 pages
...explanation carefully defines his idea: "All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function,...intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect or the will ; is the background of our being, in which they lie — an immensity not possessed and... | |
 | Jirah Dewey Buck - Sex - 1912 - 218 pages
...All goes to show "—says Emerson in the " Over-Soul,"—" that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...will; is the background of our being in which they lie—an immensity not xxii possessed, and that cannot be possessed," because, I might add—// possesses... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be... | |
 | Henry David Gray - Transcendentalism (New England) - 1917 - 124 pages
...the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a function ... is not a faculty, but a light ; is not the intellect...immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. . . . When it breathes through his intellect it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1918 - 296 pages
...All goes to show that the Soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs ; is not a faculty, but a light ; is not the intellect...immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. A light shines through us upon things/ and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott - Imagination - 1922 - 354 pages
...get hints of the true action of the mind. "All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed." For the most part this is hardly mystical at all, but psychological. The intellect, voluntary thought,... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...into knowledge of the secret of nature. All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function,...will; is the background of our being, in which they lie—an immensiry not possessed and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light... | |
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