 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.  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 1581840Full view - About this book
 | John George Cochrane - 1840 - 480 pages
...namely, to find a theory of nature. We have theories of races and functions, but scarcely yet a remote approximation to an idea of creation. We are now so...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language, sleep, dreams,... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...a theory of nature. We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation. We are now so far from the...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as language, sleep, madness,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...namely, to find a theory of Nature. We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approximation to an idea of creation. We are now so...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language, sleep, dreams,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...namely, to find a theory of nature. We have theories of'races and of functions; but scarcely yet a remote approximation to an idea of creation. We are now so...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable: as language, sleep, dreams,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...a theory of nature. We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote ap-proach to an idea of creation. We are now so far from the...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language, sleep, madness,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...a theory of nature. We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation. We are now so far from the...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language, sleep, madness,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...a theory of nature. We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation. We are now so far from the...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language, sleep, madness,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...namely, to find a theory of Nature. We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approximation to an idea of creation. We are now so...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language, sleep, dreams,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...a theory of nature. We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation. We are now so far from the...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language, sleep, madness,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...a theory of nature. "We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation. We are now so far from the...its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phe•S nomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable ; as language, sleep,... | |
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