...topic, was itself a higher circle or classification; and each volume of essays was yet a higher one: "The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel...depends on the force or truth of the individual soul" (CW2:180). It was this new way of working toward the whole that liberated Emerson from the literal...

..."rebirth." Emerson writes in "Circles": "The life of a man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end" (Essays 404), and this figure seems to motivate an interesting reference to Yeats in a passage from...

...Houghton Mifflin, 1903-04. Introduction The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end. —"Circles" (CW2:180) I he enormous critical resurgence of interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson over the...

...described the nature of the relationship: The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards...depends on the force or truth of the individual soul. Central to maintaining the "force or truth" of the individual soul is the discipline of self-observation,...

...Dickinson in turn adopts, Emerson declaims: The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards...and larger circles, and that without end . . . The heart refuses to be imprisoned; in its first and narrowest pulses it already tends outward with a vast...

...another circle. Emerson describes the "life of man" as "a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards...new and larger circles, and that without end." The circle is Emerson's figure of figures, collapsing the eye and its horizon, a life and the world that...

...(Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1895) 267: 'The life of a man is a self-evolving circle, which from a ring imperceptibly small rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end, [...].' Brief an John Clellon Holmes vom 5. Juni 1952 in Charters, ed., Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters,...

..."Circles," in which Emerson claimed "the life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes, on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end." Unlike Emerson's optimistic evolutionism, Frost sees a diminution from Catholicism to Protestantism...

...(Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1 895) 267: 'The life of a man is a self-evolving circle, which f rom a ring imperceptibly small rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end, [...]." Brief an John Clellon Holmes vom 5. Juni 1952 in Charters, ed., Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters,...

...Permanence is but a word of degrees.... The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end" (229-30). He goes on to note that the "only sin is limitation" (232). The most graphic illustration...