...does not exhaust itself as a terminal product, but is the emblem or the outer sign of another reality: "A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world" (25). But this intangible level or supplement of reality is in fact much older than the Romantic movement...

...strictly emblematic character of the material world" ("English Literature: Introductory," EL i: 224); "The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world" (Nature, LAE 25). What is caducous has successfully transmigrated from physicality and visibility to...

...itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.... (I: 34-5) The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior...

...this conceptual congruence is Emerson's assertion that the elements of nature are the final emanations of spirit: "A fact is the end or last issue of spirit....terminus or the circumference of the invisible world" (E, 25). All the facts of nature "preexist in the necessary Ideas in the mind of God," and the better...

...language always owes itself to the veracity of the attachment of words to things: "A fact," says Emerson, "is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world" (36). At his extremity man defies the potential, annulling void which eternity, the "dazzling dark...

...reflection of the spiritual and can be understood only by reference to the spiritual from which it springs: "The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world."4 In relation to an idea existing in the spiritual world, the material expression is "an appendix...

...metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her...

...manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alcali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by the virtue of preceding affections in the world of spirit." 74 Emerson (2000), p. 18. 75 Vgl. Pütz...

...manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alcali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by the virtue of preceding affections in the world of spirit." 74 Emerson (2000), p. 18. 75 Vgl. Pütz...

...the embodiment of a metaphysical, that is, transcendental system, in which, to use Emerson's words, "The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world."25 The objects in Lane's paintings are presented in terms of transcendental hermeneutics. They...