The oft-quoted aphorism "We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them" appears in this essay.
This essay argues that from the perspective of the intellect, sin has no essence, but is "diminution or  less ," whereas the conscience feels sin "as essence," viewing it as "pravity or  bad ." This essay identifies the Fall of Man with the "unhappy...discovery we have made, that we exist." Denying the possibility of access to objective reality, this essay analogizes people to "colored and distorting lenses" that "we have no means of correcting...or of computing the amount of their errors." This essay lists "Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness" as the "lords of life." The oft-quoted aphorism "We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them" appears in this essay. This essay's author writes, "I grieve that grief can teach me nothing," after remarking, on a rare autobiographical note, that his son died over two years ago. For 10 points, name this essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the disappointments of the title phenomenon.
This essay argues that from the perspective of the intellect, sin has no essence, but is "diminution or  less ," whereas the conscience feels sin "as essence," viewing it as "pravity or  bad .
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