 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, and we return to reason and faith." " The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." For saying such things as these he was accused of Pantheism. And he was a Pantheist, — yet I think... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball^ .Lam .nothing ; I see all; the currents. o£ the Universal JBeing... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1887 - 244 pages
...heaven itself a decoy." Elsewhere he gives his estimate of himself, thus : " I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the universal Being circulate through me ; I am part and parcel of God." Can you make any sense of this ? Is there any sense in it ? It is a favorite theme... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...absolute is felt. "All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing ; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God." The existence and attributes of God are not deducible from history or from natural... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...can befall me in life,— no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by...into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1888 - 404 pages
...speaking of the contemplation of Nature : — ' I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God,' &c. Angelus says, in virtue of his ideal sonship, — I am as great as God, and he as small as I ;... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing ; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being 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,—master... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 320 pages
...not differing from, but as the same as themselves." Emerson puts it, — " I am nothing, I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me : I am part and parcel of God." Hegel's formula is — " Being and Thought are the same ;" and thus God is a process... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which Nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by...into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate... | |
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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 eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am... 
