This use of the world includes the preceding uses, as parts of itself. Space, time, society, labor, climate, food, locomotion, the animals, the mechanical forces, give us sincerest lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited. They educate both the... Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures - Page 42by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887Full view - About this book
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited. They educate both the Understanding and the Reason. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding,...perceiving the analogy that marries Matter and Mind. i. Nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellectual truths. Our dealing with sensible objects... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...the Understanding and the Reason. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding,—its solidity or resistance; its inertia, its extension,...understanding adds, divides, combines, measures, and finds everlasting nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene. Meantime, Reason transfers all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...the understanding and the reason. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding,—its solidity or resistance, its inertia, its extension,...understanding adds, divides, combines, measures, and finds everlasting nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene. Meantime, Reason transfers all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited. They educate both the understanding and the reason. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding,...understanding adds, divides, combines, measures, and finds everlasting nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene. Meantime, Reason transfers all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited. They educate both the Understanding and the Reason. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding, — its solidity ov resistance, its inertia, its extension, its figure, its divisibility. Tlie understanding adds, divides,... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...understanding and the reason. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding, its stolidity, or resistance, its inertia, its extension, its figure,...measures, and finds nutriment and room for its activity in these worthy scenes. Meanwhile, reason transfers its own lessons into its own world of thought by perceiving... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...invisible world. "Material objects," said a French philosopher, " are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which...room for its activity in this worthy scene. Meantime, Keason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought, by perceiving the analogy that marries... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited. They educate both the Understanding and the Reason. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding, — its solidity or resistance, its merlin, its extension, its figure, its divisibility. The understanding adds, divides, combines, measures,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited. They educate both the Understanding and the Reason. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding,...perceiving the analogy that marries Matter and Mind. I. Nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellectual truths. Our dealing with sensible objects... | |
| 1888 - 746 pages
...and their application to the arts. " Nature ", says Emerson, " is a discipline of the understanding. Every property of matter is a school for the understanding,...inertia, its extension, its figure, its divisibility. Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons of difference, of... | |
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