...Over-Soul, which is tied to no individual, no culture, no tradition, but arises fresh in every person. S "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity." S "Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away — means, teachers,...

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...Over-Soul, which is tied to no individual, no culture, no tradition, but arises fresh in every person. S "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which...receivers of its truth and organs of its activity." S "Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away—means, teachers,...

...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in 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,...

...sort of humanism was it and what creative responsibility did it give to man, when Emerson could say, We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity.2 In another mood, equally reassuring, he says something exactly different. Nature is thoroughly...

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...should not raise a finger." And why is this so surprising? Elsewhere in the same essay, Emerson writes, "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." Our surprise at such sentences comes from having accepted an idea of Emerson as himself a later prophet...

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