The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Fields, Osgood & Company, 1870 |
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... Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spirit- ual facts . 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history : the use of the outer ...
... Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spirit- ual facts . 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit . 1. Words are signs of natural facts . The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history : the use of the outer ...
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... particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did it need such noble races of creatures , this profusion of forms , this host of orbs in heaven , to furnish man with the dictionary and ...
... particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did it need such noble races of creatures , this profusion of forms , this host of orbs in heaven , to furnish man with the dictionary and ...
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... particular to general ; of combination to one end of manifold forces . Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed , is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided , — a care pretermitted in no single case . What ...
... particular to general ; of combination to one end of manifold forces . Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed , is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided , — a care pretermitted in no single case . What ...
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... particular events , but great classes , nay the whole series of events , and so conform all facts to his charac- ter . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the ...
... particular events , but great classes , nay the whole series of events , and so conform all facts to his charac- ter . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the ...
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... particular . But this theory makes nature foreign to me , and does not account for that consanguinity which we acknowledge to it . Let it stand , then , in the present state of our knowledge , merely as a useful introductory hypothesis ...
... particular . But this theory makes nature foreign to me , and does not account for that consanguinity which we acknowledge to it . Let it stand , then , in the present state of our knowledge , merely as a useful introductory hypothesis ...
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Page 45 - into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce,
Page 61 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience,— patience
Page 397 - truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose
Page 241 - thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought,
Page 241 - conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil
Page 40 - kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. What is a day *? What is a year
Page 354 - And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal, but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being. THE OVER-SOUL. " But souls that of his own good life partake, He loves as his own self; dear as his
Page 27 - woman, house and trade. In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul
Page 243 - everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one' of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Page 30 - And^ as the morning steals upon the night, The charm dissolves apace, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. Begins to swell : and the approaching tide