Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 33
... intel- lectually considered we call Reason , considered in relation to nature , we call Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the FATHER . It is ...
... intel- lectually considered we call Reason , considered in relation to nature , we call Spirit . Spirit is the Creator . Spirit hath life in itself . And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the FATHER . It is ...
Page 152
... intel- lect . Hence the historical failure , on which Europe and America have so freely commented . This country has not fulfilled what seemed the reason- able expectation of mankind . Men looked , when all feudal straps and bandages ...
... intel- lect . Hence the historical failure , on which Europe and America have so freely commented . This country has not fulfilled what seemed the reason- able expectation of mankind . Men looked , when all feudal straps and bandages ...
Page 255
... intel- lect but on the instinct , blends itself with the brute forces of nature , is respectable only as nature is ; but the individuals have no attraction for us . It is the dissenter , the theorist , the aspirant , who is quitting ...
... intel- lect but on the instinct , blends itself with the brute forces of nature , is respectable only as nature is ; but the individuals have no attraction for us . It is the dissenter , the theorist , the aspirant , who is quitting ...
Page 270
... intel- lectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life . I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State . The canker worms have crawled to the topmost bough of ...
... intel- lectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life . I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State . The canker worms have crawled to the topmost bough of ...
Page 343
... intel- lectual culture from one country and their duties from another . This false state of things is newly in a way to be corrected . America is beginning to as- sert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children , and ...
... intel- lectual culture from one country and their duties from another . This false state of things is newly in a way to be corrected . America is beginning to as- sert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children , and ...
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