He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

Emerson’s line praises a rare kind of speaker, artist, or thinker whose presence lifts an audience out of ordinary chronology—deadlines, fashions, and personal anxieties—and into an experience of the timeless. In Emerson’s Transcendentalist outlook, the highest art and insight awaken an intuition of the eternal: the Over-Soul, moral law, or the abiding reality behind appearances. To “take men out of time” suggests a temporary suspension of the everyday self; to “make them feel eternity” suggests contact with something absolute and enduring. The remark thus functions as a criterion of greatness: the best minds do not merely inform or entertain; they enlarge consciousness toward the infinite.