...dynamic nature. Western man prefers to fall back on the comforting notion of Creator. Thus Emerson: "There is never a beginning, there is never an end,...to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God." Emerson seems to want to impose a Western-style God on the Tao. To the Eastern mind, the eternal process...

...Geschehens im Raum, das in seinen immer neuen Ausprägungen stets wieder zu sich selbst zurückkommt: "There is never a beginning, there is never an end,...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself."8 Jene .Verräumlichung der Zeit', wie sie immer wieder mit dem Projekt...

...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his...

...discovery. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay "The American Scholar," "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages" (emphasis added).20 In a similar vein, the Old Testament psalmist continually calls our attention to...

...what to think, but how to think and, as a consequence, how, most propitiously and creatively, to live. There is never a beginning, there is never an end,...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. (55) So he begins his comments on the first, and most immediate, of those...

...The second Fundamental Proposition is found in Emerson' s understanding of the Law of Periodicity. "There is never a beginning, there is never an end...inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always a circular power returning to itself." Pondering this led him to understand the duality at the heart...

...well as strong to think.""' On what is the heroic character founded? "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...he of all men whom this spectacle most engages."" Think of the Emersonian scholar in our contemporary world as the individual, attentive learner. An...

...everything tries to be round. . . ."20 Compare this with Emerson's reference to "the American scholar": "What is nature to him? There is never a beginning,...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he...

...influences in the education of the scholar was particularly intriguing to me: Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he...

...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he...