Nature: Addresses, and Lectures |
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... this ocean of water beneath , this firmament of earth between ? this zodiac of lights , this tent of dropping clouds , this striped coat of climates , this fourfold year ? Beasts , fire , water , stones , and corn serve him .
... this ocean of water beneath , this firmament of earth between ? this zodiac of lights , this tent of dropping clouds , this striped coat of climates , this fourfold year ? Beasts , fire , water , stones , and corn serve him .
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stones , and corn serve him . The field is at once his floor , his work - yard , his play - ground , his garden , and his bed . “ More servants wait on man Than he ' ll take notice of . " Nature , in its ministry to man , is not only ...
stones , and corn serve him . The field is at once his floor , his work - yard , his play - ground , his garden , and his bed . “ More servants wait on man Than he ' ll take notice of . " Nature , in its ministry to man , is not only ...
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A NOBLER want of man is served by nature , namely , the love of Beauty . The ancient Greeks called the world kóduos , beauty . Such is the constitution of all things , or such the plastic power of the human eye , that the primary forms ...
A NOBLER want of man is served by nature , namely , the love of Beauty . The ancient Greeks called the world kóduos , beauty . Such is the constitution of all things , or such the plastic power of the human eye , that the primary forms ...
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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 as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful DISCIPLINE . 45.
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 as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful DISCIPLINE . 45.
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When a thing has served an end to the uttermost , it is wholly new for an ulterior service . In God , every end is converted into a new means . Thus the use of commodity , regarded by itself , is mean and squalid .
When a thing has served an end to the uttermost , it is wholly new for an ulterior service . In God , every end is converted into a new means . Thus the use of commodity , regarded by itself , is mean and squalid .
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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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