Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 30
... eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expres- sion of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use 30 BEAUTY .
... eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expres- sion of the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use 30 BEAUTY .
Page 33
... eternal calm , and full of everlast- ing orbs , is the type of Reason . That which intel- lectually considered we call Reason , considered in relation to nature , we call Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And ...
... eternal calm , and full of everlast- ing orbs , is the type of Reason . That which intel- lectually considered we call Reason , considered in relation to nature , we call Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And ...
Page 62
... eternal . " It puts an affront upon nature . It does that for the unschooled , which philosophy does for Berkeley and Viasa . The uniform lan- guage that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects is , " Contemn the unsub ...
... eternal . " It puts an affront upon nature . It does that for the unschooled , which philosophy does for Berkeley and Viasa . The uniform lan- guage that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects is , " Contemn the unsub ...
Page 67
... eternal distinc- tion between the soul and the world . But when , following the invisible steps of thought , we come to inquire , Whence is matter ? and Where- to ? many truths arise to us out of the recesses of consciousness . We learn ...
... eternal distinc- tion between the soul and the world . But when , following the invisible steps of thought , we come to inquire , Whence is matter ? and Where- to ? many truths arise to us out of the recesses of consciousness . We learn ...
Page 70
... eternal verities . Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight , and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole . The savant becomes unpoetic . But the best read ...
... eternal verities . Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight , and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole . The savant becomes unpoetic . But the best read ...
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