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... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in ...
... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in ...
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... . 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 ; but the most trivial of VOL . I. 7 - these facts , the habit of a plant , LANGUAGE . 33.
... . 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 ; but the most trivial of VOL . I. 7 - these facts , the habit of a plant , LANGUAGE . 33.
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... whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of mat- ter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " The axioms of ...
... whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of mat- ter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " The axioms of ...
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... whole character and fortune of the individ- ual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
... whole character and fortune of the individ- ual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
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... whole series of events , and so conform all facts to his character . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode . It offers all its kingdoms to man ...
... whole series of events , and so conform all facts to his character . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode . It offers all its kingdoms to man ...
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| Title | Nature: Addresses, and Lectures Volume 1 of Riverside ed. Complete works |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 22 Oct 2013 |
| Length | 315 pages |
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