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Página 327
Water dissolves wood and stone and salt; air dissolves water; electric fire
dissolves air; but the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, laws, method, and the
subtlest unnamed relations of nature, in its resistless menstruum. Intellect lies
behind genius, ...
Water dissolves wood and stone and salt; air dissolves water; electric fire
dissolves air; but the intellect dissolves fire, gravity, laws, method, and the
subtlest unnamed relations of nature, in its resistless menstruum. Intellect lies
behind genius, ...
Página 328
Intellect and intellection signify, to the common ear, consideration of abstract truth
. The consideration of time and place, of you and me, of profit and hurt, tyrannise
over most men's minds. Intellect separates the fact considered from you, from all ...
Intellect and intellection signify, to the common ear, consideration of abstract truth
. The consideration of time and place, of you and me, of profit and hurt, tyrannise
over most men's minds. Intellect separates the fact considered from you, from all ...
Página 329
As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies
open to the mercy of coming events. But a truth, separated by the intellect, is no
longer a subject of destiny. We behold it as a god upraised above care and fear.
As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies
open to the mercy of coming events. But a truth, separated by the intellect, is no
longer a subject of destiny. We behold it as a god upraised above care and fear.
Página 337
In the intellect constructive, which we popularly designate by the word Genius,
we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive. The
constructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs,
systems.
In the intellect constructive, which we popularly designate by the word Genius,
we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive. The
constructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs,
systems.
Página 342
Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation, is the integrity of the intellect
transmitted to its works, but by a vigilance which brings the intellect in its
greatness and best state to operate every moment. It must have the same
wholeness which ...
Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation, is the integrity of the intellect
transmitted to its works, but by a vigilance which brings the intellect in its
greatness and best state to operate every moment. It must have the same
wholeness which ...
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Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Essays |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Thomas Carlyle |
| Colaborador | Thomas Carlyle |
| Editora | James Fraser, 1841 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 22 mar. 2008 |
| Num. págs. | 371 páginas |
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