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" A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. "
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits. Conduct of life. Nature - Page 372
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...WAY 268 VIII. BEAUTY 286 IX. ILLUSIONS • • •'• • • • • *99 EMERSON'S ESSAYS NATURE A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 3 EREATA. Pages 317 and 319 — for 1841 read 1842. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...AMERICAN. A LBCTURB RBAD TO THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 . 349 NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form .1 -i: i INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 91

1903 - 1362 pages
...of nature are evolutionary ; that, as Emerson expressed it, in the fine pre-Darwinian lines : — " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." But Alcott's theory was quite the reverse of this, — that man, instead of ascending through nature,...
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The Dial, Volume 1

Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 786 pages
...fibre of Nature. Depend on it, all that is has its secret thread to ourselves, and may teach us. ' A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' " Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we hav.e seen that...
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The Dial, Volume 1

Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 pages
...fibre of Nature. Depend on it, all that is has its secret thread to ourselves, and may teach us. ' A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye rcuJ^ omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the ruse ; And striving to be man, the worm Mounts...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It 'writes biographies,...
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...of th» District Court of the District of Massachusetts. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless ringg The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form . CONTENTS. NATURE THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. AN ORATION BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE,...
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May-day, and Other Pieces

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...The far halloo of human voice ; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...NOMINALIST AND REALIST ....... 533 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ....... 547 MISCELLANIES. VOL. 1. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...
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