 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...truth and organs of its activity. When we discern jus- 30 tice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.... | |
 | David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 190 pages
...Nature are the expression or production of divine faculties, and the same are in us." 2 Or, again : " We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams."3 '"Plato and Platonism," NY, 1891, pp. 149, 150. 2 vm, 43. 3 n, 64. The correspondence between... | |
 | David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 190 pages
...Nature are the expression or production of divine faculties, and the same are in us." 2 Or, again : " We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams."3 1 " Plato and Platonism," NY, 1891, pp. 149, 150. 2 v1n, 43. 3 n, 64. The correspondence between... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Character - 1911 - 148 pages
...distant as to have no parallax cannot be calculated. which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a s passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 540 pages
...Intelligence is an abiding conviction not affected by the tides of the inner life. "We lie," he says, "in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity." He teaches us to seek intellectual inspiration from the Infinite Mind. He hears the comforting voice... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 616 pages
...Intelligence is an abiding conviction not affected by the tides of the inner life. "We lie," he says, "in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity." He teaches us to seek intellectual inspiration from the Infinite Mind. He hears the comforting voice... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - Literary Collections - 1913 - 530 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If 20 we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - Education, Higher - 1914 - 556 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, it" we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - American literature - 1915 - 670 pages
...of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, and which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves, but. allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern 15 justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy... | |
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. 
