December 18, 2008
The invisible connection between heaven and earth, the solitary principle which unites intellectual beings to an account and makes of men moral being – religion – is distinct and peculiar, alike in its origin and its end, from all other elations. It is essential to the Universe. You seek in vain to contemplate the order of things apart from its existence. You can no more banish this than you can separate from yourself the notions of Space and Duration. Through all the perverse mazes and shadows of infidelity the Light still makes itself visible, until the reluctant mind shudders to acknowledge the eternal encompassing presence of Deity. If you can abstract it from the Universe, the Soul is bewildered by a system of things of which no account can be given; instances of tremendous power – and no hand found to form them; a thousand creations in a thousand spheres all pointing upward to a single point – and no object there to see and receive – it is all a vast anomaly. Restore Religion and you give to those energies a sublime object…
Emerson - Journals Volume I
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