The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page 31
... mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made . These facts may suggest the advantage which the country - life possesses , for a powerful mind , over the artificial ...
... mind . It is proper creation . It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made . These facts may suggest the advantage which the country - life possesses , for a powerful mind , over the artificial ...
Page 87
... mind . Its laws are the laws of his own mind . Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attain- ments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does he not yet pos- sess . And , in fine , the ancient ...
... mind . Its laws are the laws of his own mind . Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attain- ments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does he not yet pos- sess . And , in fine , the ancient ...
Page 197
... mind in nature , be- cause we cannot steadily gaze on it in mind ; as we explore the face of the sun in a pool , when our eyes cannot brook his direct splendors . It seems to me therefore that it were some suitable pæan if we should ...
... mind in nature , be- cause we cannot steadily gaze on it in mind ; as we explore the face of the sun in a pool , when our eyes cannot brook his direct splendors . It seems to me therefore that it were some suitable pæan if we should ...
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