...my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean...circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign, and accidental. To be brothers, to be acquaintances,...

...losing my eyes1 which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism...vanishes; I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; 1 see all; the currents of Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel ofGod. 17 The...

...and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. 1 become a transparent eye-ball; ! am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of parcel of God. From Popular to Profound While neither the Romantics nor the Transcendentalists were...

...primacy." Le Pas au-delà (Paris: Gallimard, 1973), 124-25. 8. Steven Shapiro quotes Emerson's "Nature": "All mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all." He adds, "The narcissistic integrity of the ego is less important than the purity of sight itself."...

...Emerson in his most famous prose piece, "Nature," had averred that "standing on the bare ground . . . and uplifted into infinite space,— all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball." Later in the same essay he reported, "I expand and live in the warm day, like corn and melons." Cranch...

...has a unique blend of religious and nature mysticism: "In the woods we return to reason and faith. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty." Emerson unites traditional theistic...

...Emerson famously declared in Nature: "Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." Although the Darwinian revolution revealed a nature indifferent to human desires and meanings, an amoral...

...me my eyes.) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground. - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil...

...humanity is but an extension or projection: "Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean...circulate through me: I am part or particle of God." He borrowed the notion of the transcendental from Kant, who used it to characterize a class of ideas...

...calamity . . . which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism...Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.21 Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson here speaks of the tremendous regenerative power that nature holds...