Titlebook: Emerson‘s Sublime Science; Eric Wilson Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999 America.argue.energy.

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The Hermetic Current,let fever, two years earlier had thrown Emerson into dark meditation; he began seriously to doubt those vital truths that had buoyed him through the trials of his youth, ranging from his risky break with the church to his scandalous critiques of orthodoxy. He found himself in the middle of life’s wa

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Electric Cosmos, golden possibility that we could ‘uild… [our] own world’ (N 94). By 1860, however, in writing ‘Fate’ a 57-year-old Emerson realized that though we may build it, the materials are limited, the tools scarce: ‘Once we thought, positive power was all. Now we learn, that negative power, or circumstan

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4394-0one sees God’s spirit coursing through matter. In one such entry, he laments his inability to experience the ‘divine principle that lurks within’, ‘of which life has afforded only glimpses enough to assure me of its being’. One glimpses this principle in observing nature, conversing, or reading, suddenly feeling the shock of the sublime sensation.

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