 | Lee Rust Brown - History - 1997 - 306 pages
...of action and reaction, regardless of whether they appear in physical, moral, or linguistic realms: Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every...inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the... | |
 | William Gerber - Epistemology & Metaphysics - 1997 - 252 pages
...and right and what is lofty, while vice corresponds to dark and wrong and scurrilous. He wrote: (433) Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every...in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female;. ..each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as spirit, matter; man, woman;... | |
 | George S. White - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1998 - 240 pages
...POLARITY : Emerson in his Essay on Compensation uses the word "polarity" as an antithesis. He says: "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 equation... | |
 | Tyler Hoffman - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 284 pages
...that essay Emerson sets forth his view of the counterpoise of forces that makes for a moral universe: "Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every...and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female."49 When Frost says that "there are limitations to all things," he means not only that the natural... | |
 | Virginia Hanson, Rosemarie Stewart, Shirley J. Nicholson, S. Nicholson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2001 - 316 pages
...of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle. 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 equation... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 302 pages
...reaction, stroke and return. The opening of the main body of "Compensation" presents the completed system: Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every...inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the... | |
 | Religion in literature - 156 pages
...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...inspiration and 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 2004 - 256 pages
...of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle. POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every...inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 284 pages
...Revelation, 78. 9. Ellison, Emerson's Romantic Style, 173. 10. This is nicely shown in "Compensation": "Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every...inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 2005 - 69 pages
...of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle. POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every...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... | |
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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; ; in male and female ; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals ; in the equation of quantity and... 
