Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... face to face ; we , through their eyes . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not ...
... face to face ; we , through their eyes . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not ...
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... like an eagle or a swallow through the air . By the aggregate of these aids , how is the face of the world changed , from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon ! The private poor man hath cities , ships , canals , COMMODITY . 19.
... like an eagle or a swallow through the air . By the aggregate of these aids , how is the face of the world changed , from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon ! The private poor man hath cities , ships , canals , COMMODITY . 19.
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... face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love in such excess , that , not content with admir- ing , they seek to embody it in new forms . The creation of beauty is Art . ―― The ...
... face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love in such excess , that , not content with admir- ing , they seek to embody it in new forms . The creation of beauty is Art . ―― The ...
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... faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expres- sion of ...
... faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expres- sion of ...
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... 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 . Thus , " the whole is greater than its part ; " " reaction is ...
... 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 . Thus , " the whole is greater than its part ; " " reaction is ...
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