The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... Nature protects her own work . To the culture of the world an Archimedes , a New- ton is indispensable ; so she guards them by a certain aridity . If these had been good fellows , fond of dancing , port and clubs , we should have had no ...
... Nature protects her own work . To the culture of the world an Archimedes , a New- ton is indispensable ; so she guards them by a certain aridity . If these had been good fellows , fond of dancing , port and clubs , we should have had no ...
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... Nature , Plato rightly said , " Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art . " Art , univer- sally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle , " The reason of the thing , without the ...
... Nature , Plato rightly said , " Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art . " Art , univer- sally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle , " The reason of the thing , without the ...
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... Nature ; all human acts are satellites to her orb . Nature is the representative of the uni- versal mind , and the law becomes this , that Art must be a complement to Nature , strictly subsidiary . It was said , in allusion to the great ...
... Nature ; all human acts are satellites to her orb . Nature is the representative of the uni- versal mind , and the law becomes this , that Art must be a complement to Nature , strictly subsidiary . It was said , in allusion to the great ...
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... Nature tyrannizes over our works . They must be conformed to her law , or they will be ground to powder by her omnipresent activity . Nothing droll , nothing whimsical will endure . Nature is ever interfering with Art . You can- not ...
... Nature tyrannizes over our works . They must be conformed to her law , or they will be ground to powder by her omnipresent activity . Nothing droll , nothing whimsical will endure . Nature is ever interfering with Art . You can- not ...
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... Nature what will fit best , as if he were fitting a screw or a door . Beneath a necessity thus almighty , what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant . He seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his ...
... Nature what will fit best , as if he were fitting a screw or a door . Beneath a necessity thus almighty , what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant . He seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his ...
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