By Arthur S. Lothstein, Michael Brodrick
Essays and poems discover the modern relevance of Emerson's paintings and suggestion.
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Emerson’s characteristic way of approaching questions is also seen in his treatment of the problem of experience itself, for he views it sometimes monistically and sometimes dualistically. ”10 Clearly, then, his attitude to the fundamental question of the relation between the world of nature and the Absolute was anything but 16 Robert C. Pollock capricious. He did not deliberately seek out inconsistency. But neither did he shy away from it when he found it staring him in the face from the very center of his own thinking and his own experience.
This transpersonal something is, of course, the divine presence itself. ” Emerson attempted to “pluck the strings of tension” in men by contrasting their habitual state of consciousness with a truly human state. ”13 Men were living at second hand and had accepted penny-wisdom substitutes for what was authentic. Even when men yearned to drink deeply of life, they were enslaved by the grotesque notion that living one’s life had to be postponed from day to day. No mere generalizer or a propounder of formulas, Emerson merely wished to resuscitate a primal state of consciousness in which man feels his continuity with the great world around him, experiencing a sense of participation and of barriers swept away, and in addition, a sense of contact with a spiritual source of things.
But speak the truth,” he says, “and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. ”14 For Emerson it was never a question of a spiritual versus a naturalistic outlook, since, as we have seen, he steadfastly refused to recognize any split between the higher and lower worlds. We would say that for him the real opposition lay between a genuinely spiritual outlook and a spiritual outlook which was denatured. It seemed to him that everything was conspiring to 18 Robert C. Pollock make religion something artificial in the universal scheme, something apart from man’s life in the world of nature.