Ron, I posted the youtube presentation of the entire (read aloud) essay. You may check my original post and I will post it again so you might be a good listener. So what is your complaint?
Marsha > On Nov 30, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Ron Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Emerson's essay on intellect > Is a brilliant example of the distinction > Made between objective conceptions > Of truth and artistic ones, after deconstructing the objective conceptions of > his day he writes: > "Intellect lies behind genius, which is constructive. Intellect is the simple > power anterior to > all action or construction." > He begins to associate intellect > As the fruit of art and the spontaneous ... > "If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we > shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive > principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the > second, but virtual and latent. We want, in every man, a long logic; > we cannot pardon the absence of it, but it must not be spoken. Logic > is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but > its virtue is as silent method; " > > Intellect is the unfolding of intuition > > "We are all wise. The difference > persons is not in > wisdom but in art. " > > The principle of art lies in community > And communication .. > > " To genius must always > go two gifts, the thought and the publication. The first is > revelation, always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or > incessant study can ever familiarize, but which must always leave the > inquirer stupid with wonder. It is the advent of truth into the > world, a form of thought now, for the first time, bursting into the > universe, a child of the old eternal soul, a piece of genuine and > immeasurable greatness. It seems, for the time, to inherit all that > has yet existed, and to dictate to the unborn. It affects every > thought of man, and goes to fashion every institution. But to make > it available, it needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to > men." > > If Marsha were to post the entire essay. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
