Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us by the pow- ers they ...
... philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us by the pow- ers they ...
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... . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is separate from us , all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME , that is , both nature and art , all other men and my own body , must be ranked under this name , NATURE 10 INTRODUCTION .
... . Strictly speaking , therefore , all that is separate from us , all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME , that is , both nature and art , all other men and my own body , must be ranked under this name , NATURE 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccu- racy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to es- sences unchanged by man ; space , the air , the ...
... philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccu- racy is not material ; no confusion of thought will occur . Nature , in the common sense , refers to es- sences unchanged by man ; space , the air , the ...
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... philosophy and dreams . Not less excellent , except for our less suscep- tibility in the afternoon , was the charm , last even- ing , of a January sunset . The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes modulated ...
... philosophy and dreams . Not less excellent , except for our less suscep- tibility in the afternoon , was the charm , last even- ing , of a January sunset . The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes modulated ...
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... philosophy , or in any way associated to human nature , affects us in the most lively and agreeable manner . The seed of a plant , — to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of , in all dis- course ...
... philosophy , or in any way associated to human nature , affects us in the most lively and agreeable manner . The seed of a plant , — to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of , in all dis- course ...
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