...view. The law of compensation is rooted in the principle of polarity, which is established in nature: Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every...expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quality and quantity in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart; in...

...said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence. If a man dogmatize in a mixed compaoy on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered...inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the sptole and diastole of the heart; in the undulations of fluids and of sound; in the centrifugal and...

...the duality at the heart of our world, and that each thing requires its opposite to make it complete. "Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;" he wrote, "in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female;...

...heart, the undulations of fluids and of sound, centrifugal and centripetal gravity, Emerson observes, "Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature. . . . An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing...

...world in which you live, including the ultimate of opposites: life and apparent death. As Emerson said, "Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature." Throughout our lives we encounter confusing and perplexing dualities. It's a challenge we must face...

...the following chapter to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of compensation ; 173 happy beyond my expectation, if I shall truly draw...inspiration and expiration of plants and animals ; in the systole and diastole of the heart ; in the undulations of fluids, and of sound ; in the centrifugal...

...address at the late Church Congress, where he * As Emerson well says in his Essay on Compensation : " Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every...inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the undulations of fluids and of sound ; in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity ; in eh ctricity, galvanism,...

...probably first discovered in Ralph Waldo ,Emerson's 'Compensation' (1841). The relevant passage reads: 'Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every...and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the systole...

...controversy rise too high, they should steady themselves by rereading Emerson's essay on "Compensation." "Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature," he wrote, "in darkness and light, in heat and cold, in the ebb and flow of waters, in male and female,...