Nature: Addresses, and Lectures |
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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 stream around and through us ...
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 stream around and through us ...
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We are now so far from the road to truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical .
We are now so far from the road to truth , that religious teachers dispute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical .
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Therefore is Nature ever the ally of Religion : lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment . Prophet and priest , David , Isaiah , Jesus , have drawn deeply from this source .
Therefore is Nature ever the ally of Religion : lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment . Prophet and priest , David , Isaiah , Jesus , have drawn deeply from this source .
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“ A Gothic church , ” said Coleridge , “ is a petrified religion . ” Michael Angelo maintained , that , to an architect , a knowledge of anatomy is essential . In Haydn's oratorios , the notes present to the imagination not only motions ...
“ A Gothic church , ” said Coleridge , “ is a petrified religion . ” Michael Angelo maintained , that , to an architect , a knowledge of anatomy is essential . In Haydn's oratorios , the notes present to the imagination not only motions ...
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... time and space are relations of matter ; that with a perception of truth or a virtuous will they have no affinity . 5. Finally , religion and ethics , which may be fitly called the practice of ideas , or the introduction IDEALISM .
... time and space are relations of matter ; that with a perception of truth or a virtuous will they have no affinity . 5. Finally , religion and ethics , which may be fitly called the practice of ideas , or the introduction IDEALISM .
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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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