Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 29
... object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in his several work ...
... object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in his several work ...
Page 33
... objects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without these objects , nor these objects without man . All the facts in natural history ...
... objects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without these objects , nor these objects without man . All the facts in natural history ...
Page 37
... objects in the expression of particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did it need such noble races of creatures , this pro- fusion of forms , this host of orbs in heaven , to fur- nish ...
... objects in the expression of particular meanings . But how great a language to convey such pepper - corn informations ! Did it need such noble races of creatures , this pro- fusion of forms , this host of orbs in heaven , to fur- nish ...
Page 40
... objects , " said a French philosopher , " are necessarily kinds of scorice of the substantial thoughts of the Creator , which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin ; in other words , visible nature must have a ...
... objects , " said a French philosopher , " are necessarily kinds of scorice of the substantial thoughts of the Creator , which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin ; in other words , visible nature must have a ...
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... objects ; since " every ob- ject rightly seen , unlocks a new faculty of the soul . " That which was unconscious truth , becomes , when interpreted and defined in an object , a part of the domain of knowledge , a new weapon in the mag ...
... objects ; since " every ob- ject rightly seen , unlocks a new faculty of the soul . " That which was unconscious truth , becomes , when interpreted and defined in an object , a part of the domain of knowledge , a new weapon in the mag ...
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