Nature: Addresses, and Lectures |
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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material appearance . Right means straight ; wrong means twisted . Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression ...
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material appearance . Right means straight ; wrong means twisted . Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression ...
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The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter 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 physics translate the laws of ethics .
The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter 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 physics translate the laws of ethics .
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... are necessarily kinds of scoriæ of the substantial thoughts of the Creator , which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin ; in other words , visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side .
... are necessarily kinds of scoriæ of the substantial thoughts of the Creator , which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin ; in other words , visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side .
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All things are moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color , and motion ; that every globe in the remotest heaven , every chemical change from ...
All things are moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color , and motion ; that every globe in the remotest heaven , every chemical change from ...
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It has already been illustrated , that every natural process is a version of a moral sentence . The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference . It is the pith and marrow of every substance , every relation ...
It has already been illustrated , that every natural process is a version of a moral sentence . The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference . It is the pith and marrow of every substance , every relation ...
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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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