Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 47
... truth is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants , in corn and meat . It has already been illustrated , that every nat- ural process is a version of a moral sentence . The moral law lies at the centre of nature and ...
... truth is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants , in corn and meat . It has already been illustrated , that every nat- ural process is a version of a moral sentence . The moral law lies at the centre of nature and ...
Page 48
... truth which it illustrates to him . Who can esti- mate this ? Who can guess how much firmness the sea - beaten rock has taught the fisherman ? how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky , over whose unspotted ...
... truth which it illustrates to him . Who can esti- mate this ? Who can guess how much firmness the sea - beaten rock has taught the fisherman ? how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky , over whose unspotted ...
Page 49
... that , it is easily seen , it lies under the undermost garment of nature , and betrays its source in Universal Spirit . For it per- VOL . I. 4 vades Thought also . Every universal truth which we express DISCIPLINE . 49.
... that , it is easily seen , it lies under the undermost garment of nature , and betrays its source in Universal Spirit . For it per- VOL . I. 4 vades Thought also . Every universal truth which we express DISCIPLINE . 49.
Page 50
... truth . Omne verum vero consonat . It is like a great circle on a sphere , comprising all pos- sible circles ; which , however , may be drawn and comprise it in like manner . Every such truth is the absolute Ens seen from one side ...
... truth . Omne verum vero consonat . It is like a great circle on a sphere , comprising all pos- sible circles ; which , however , may be drawn and comprise it in like manner . Every such truth is the absolute Ens seen from one side ...
Page 59
... Truth . But the philosopher , not less than the poet , postpones the apparent order and relations of things to the ... truth , and a truth , which is beauty , is the aim of both . Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's ...
... Truth . But the philosopher , not less than the poet , postpones the apparent order and relations of things to the ... truth , and a truth , which is beauty , is the aim of both . Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's ...
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