...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...

...of real sorrows. Nature says,— he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall hafer parcel of God. The name of the nearest fr end sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to...

...pensioner, not the, source of this ethereal water; from some higher energy these visions come," . . . "The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God" (Emerson's Essays, quoted from Moses, op. cit., 123). with honour, singing Thy works without ceasing,...

...Nature says — he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me." "Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God." "Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature,...

...powers, can he prepare for the "transparency" that will follow immediately in his most notorious passage: "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see...all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate •99 through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...