The Third Personality: A Novel (27)

ON THE OVERRIDING INFLUENCE OF THE HUMAN SOUL:


"The soul circumscribes all things. (It) contradicts all experience. In like manner it abolishes time and space. The influence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to that degree, that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Over-Soul"
Essays: First Series (1841)