The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 12Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1921 |
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... astronomy , geometry , intellect , morals and social life ; - laws of the world ? Why not ? These powers and laws are also facts in a Natural History . They also are objects of science and may be numbered and recorded , like stamens and ...
... astronomy , geometry , intellect , morals and social life ; - laws of the world ? Why not ? These powers and laws are also facts in a Natural History . They also are objects of science and may be numbered and recorded , like stamens and ...
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... astronomy , vast distance , but we never go into a foreign system . In geology , vast dura- tion , but we are never strangers . Our meta- physics should be able to follow the flying force through all transformations , and name the pair ...
... astronomy , vast distance , but we never go into a foreign system . In geology , vast dura- tion , but we are never strangers . Our meta- physics should be able to follow the flying force through all transformations , and name the pair ...
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... astronomy of Coper- nican worlds . ' I must think this keen sympathy , this thrill of awe with which we watch the performance of genius , a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power . I must think we are entitled to powers far ...
... astronomy of Coper- nican worlds . ' I must think this keen sympathy , this thrill of awe with which we watch the performance of genius , a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power . I must think we are entitled to powers far ...
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... astronomy or railroads or French revo- lution or theology or botany , it comes out Peter . But there are quick limits to our interest in the personality of people . They are as much alike as POWERS AND LAWS OF THOUGHT 57.
... astronomy or railroads or French revo- lution or theology or botany , it comes out Peter . But there are quick limits to our interest in the personality of people . They are as much alike as POWERS AND LAWS OF THOUGHT 57.
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... astronomy , chemistry , keep their word . Morals and the genius of humanity will also . In short , the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrange- ments , to the sphere of ...
... astronomy , chemistry , keep their word . Morals and the genius of humanity will also . In short , the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrange- ments , to the sphere of ...
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