Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and 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 ...
... relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and 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 ...
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... relation be- tween man and the vegetable . I am not alone and unacknowledged . They nod to me , and I to them . The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old . It takes me by surprise , and yet is not unknown . Its effect ...
... relation be- tween man and the vegetable . I am not alone and unacknowledged . They nod to me , and I to them . The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old . It takes me by surprise , and yet is not unknown . Its effect ...
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... relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive ...
... relation to thought . The intellect searches out the absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affection . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive ...
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... relations in all objects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without these objects , nor these objects without man . All the facts in ...
... relations in all objects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without these objects , nor these objects without man . All the facts in ...
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... relation is seen to extend from it to man , and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor , a little body with a mighty heart , then all its hab- its , even that said to be recently observed , that it never sleeps , become sublime ...
... relation is seen to extend from it to man , and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor , a little body with a mighty heart , then all its hab- its , even that said to be recently observed , that it never sleeps , become sublime ...
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