The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the... Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 34by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, " the whole... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, " the whole... | |
| Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 368 pages
...passage again. Several admired particular sentences, while Milbank was struck with this : " The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind." I saw a world of meaning in the words, while Miss Mumby rubbed her eyes and called them downright nonsense.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole... | |
| Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1847 - 344 pages
...artist, are determined by its presence and its purity. It is to cultivated religious minds alone, that ' the laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass.' The truth of this position cannot be shaken by any seeming contradiction of experience or history. Raffaelle... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1864 - 374 pages
...artist, are determined by its presence and its purity. It is to cultivated religious minds alone, that " the laws of moral nature answer to , those of matter as face to face in a glass." The truth of this position cannot be shaken by any seeming contradiction of experience or history. Eaffaelle... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, " the whole... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblejnatic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a meta plior of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts 1 The word is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is LANGUAGE. Ia metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face... | |
| 1874 - 712 pages
...natures of justice, truth, love, freedom arise and shine. This universal soul he calls Reason. . . . The visible world and the relation of its parts is the dial-plate of the invisible. Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events,... | |
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