Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... facts . 2. Particular natural facts are symbols of par- ticular spiritual facts . 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit . 1 ... fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material ap- pearance . Right means straight ...
... facts . 2. Particular natural facts are symbols of par- ticular spiritual facts . 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit . 1 ... fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material ap- pearance . Right means straight ...
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... fact in the his- tory of language , is our least debt to nature . is not words only that are emblematic ; it is things which are emblematic . Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact . Every appearance in nature corresponds ...
... fact in the his- tory of language , is our least debt to nature . is not words only that are emblematic ; it is things which are emblematic . Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact . Every appearance in nature corresponds ...
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... facts in natural history taken by themselves , have no value , but are barren , like a single sex . But marry it to human history , and it is full of life . Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ...
... facts in natural history taken by themselves , have no value , but are barren , like a single sex . But marry it to human history , and it is full of life . Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ...
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Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. - these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustra- tion of a fact in intellectual philosophy , or in any way associated to human ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. - these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustra- tion of a fact in intellectual philosophy , or in any way associated to human ...
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... facts and is in- flamed with passion or exalted by thought , it clothes itself in images . A man conversing in earnest , if he watch his intellectual processes , will find that a material image more or less luminous arises in his mind ...
... facts and is in- flamed with passion or exalted by thought , it clothes itself in images . A man conversing in earnest , if he watch his intellectual processes , will find that a material image more or less luminous arises in his mind ...
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