Nature: Addresses, and Lectures |
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In the woods , we return to reason and faith . There I feel that nothing can befall me in life , - no disgrace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , a - a -my head bathed by ...
In the woods , we return to reason and faith . There I feel that nothing can befall me in life , - no disgrace , no calamity ( leaving me my eyes ) , which nature cannot repair . Standing on the bare ground , a - a -my head bathed by ...
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Their permanence is sacredly respected , and his faith therein is perfect . The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature . We are not built like a ship to be tossed , but like a house to stand ...
Their permanence is sacredly respected , and his faith therein is perfect . The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature . We are not built like a ship to be tossed , but like a house to stand ...
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It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind , not : to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena , as of heat , water , azote ; but to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon , not a substance ; to attribute ...
It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind , not : to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena , as of heat , water , azote ; but to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon , not a substance ; to attribute ...
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It proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena , which being known , the phenomena can be predicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea . Its beauty is infinite . The true philosopher and the true poet are one ...
It proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena , which being known , the phenomena can be predicted . That law , when in the mind , is an idea . Its beauty is infinite . The true philosopher and the true poet are one ...
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The belief that it appears only , is an afterthought , but with culture this faith will as surely arise on the mind as did the first . The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith ...
The belief that it appears only , is an afterthought , but with culture this faith will as surely arise on the mind as did the first . The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith ...
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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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