...emphases on alienation and vision, certainly High Romantic — both Coleridgean and Wordsworthian: The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by die redemption of the soul. The ruin, or the blank, diat we see when we look at nature, is in our own...

...to its "original and eternal beauty" through the redemption of the soul. In his famous formulation, "the ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at...things, and so they appear not transparent but opake [sie]. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited...

...whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted and he is a selfish savage. The problem of restoring to the world original and...see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Whilst the abstract question occupies...

...Yet Unapproachable America, p. 43; and see "The Argument of the Ordinary," p. 83. Compare Emerson: "The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opaque" (Selected Essays, p. 79). 52. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, trans. RJ Hollingdale...

...soul," by which Emerson means the transformation of an individual's perceptual categories. "The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our...things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (Essays, 46, 47). The "occult relationship" between human beings and nature already exists and is waiting...