Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 29
... the beauty of her first works . The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I call an ultimate end . No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty . Beauty , in its largest and BEAUTY . 29.
... the beauty of her first works . The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty . This element I call an ultimate end . No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty . Beauty , in its largest and BEAUTY . 29.
Page 48
... re- lated to the whole , and partakes of the perfection of the whole . Each particle is a microcosm , and faithfully renders the likeness of the world . Not only resemblances exist in things whose an- alogy is 48 DISCIPLINE .
... re- lated to the whole , and partakes of the perfection of the whole . Each particle is a microcosm , and faithfully renders the likeness of the world . Not only resemblances exist in things whose an- alogy is 48 DISCIPLINE .
Page 49
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not only resemblances exist in things whose an- alogy is obvious , as when we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not only resemblances exist in things whose an- alogy is obvious , as when we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus , but also in objects wherein there is great ...
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... exists . It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World , that God will teach a human mind , and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of con- gruent sensations , which we call sun and moon , man and woman ...
... exists . It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World , that God will teach a human mind , and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of con- gruent sensations , which we call sun and moon , man and woman ...
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... exists conditionally , to find a ground unconditioned and absolute . " It proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena , which being known , the phenomena can be predicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea . Its ...
... exists conditionally , to find a ground unconditioned and absolute . " It proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena , which being known , the phenomena can be predicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea . Its ...
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