Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 48
... look where he would , all things hastened back to Unity . He was weary of seeing the same entity in the tedious variety of forms . The fable of Proteus has a cordial truth . A leaf , a drop , a crystal , a moment of time , is re- lated ...
... look where he would , all things hastened back to Unity . He was weary of seeing the same entity in the tedious variety of forms . The fable of Proteus has a cordial truth . A leaf , a drop , a crystal , a moment of time , is re- lated ...
Page 54
... look beyond their sphere . The pres- ence of Reason mars this faith . The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it , and shows us nature aloof , and , as it ...
... look beyond their sphere . The pres- ence of Reason mars this faith . The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it , and shows us nature aloof , and , as it ...
Page 62
... look- ing back to these flesh - pots of Egypt . Plotinus was ashamed of his body . In short , they might all say of matter , what Michael Angelo said of ex- ternal beauty , " It is the frail and weary weed , in which God dresses the ...
... look- ing back to these flesh - pots of Egypt . Plotinus was ashamed of his body . In short , they might all say of matter , what Michael Angelo said of ex- ternal beauty , " It is the frail and weary weed , in which God dresses the ...
Page 77
... look at nature , is in our own eye . The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things , and so they appear not transparent but opaque . The reason why the world lacks unity , and lies broken and in heaps , is because man is ...
... look at nature , is in our own eye . The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things , and so they appear not transparent but opaque . The reason why the world lacks unity , and lies broken and in heaps , is because man is ...
Page 78
... look at the world with new eyes . It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect , -What is truth ? and of the affections , What is good ? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will . Then shall come to pass what my 78 ...
... look at the world with new eyes . It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect , -What is truth ? and of the affections , What is good ? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will . Then shall come to pass what my 78 ...
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