Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 114
... turn drudges , or die of disgust , some of them suicides . What is the remedy ? They did not yet see , and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see , that if the single man plant ...
... turn drudges , or die of disgust , some of them suicides . What is the remedy ? They did not yet see , and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see , that if the single man plant ...
Page 171
... turn , the folly of these incom- plete , pedantic , useless , ghostly creatures . The scholar will feel that the richest romance , the noblest fiction that was ever woven , the heart and soul of beauty , lies enclosed in human life . It ...
... turn , the folly of these incom- plete , pedantic , useless , ghostly creatures . The scholar will feel that the richest romance , the noblest fiction that was ever woven , the heart and soul of beauty , lies enclosed in human life . It ...
Page 176
... turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being . They find that he is a poor , igno- rant man , in a white - seamed , rusty coat , like them- selves , nowise emitting a continuous ...
... turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being . They find that he is a poor , igno- rant man , in a white - seamed , rusty coat , like them- selves , nowise emitting a continuous ...
Page 186
... turn , as the receiver is only the All - Giver in part and in infancy . I cannot , nor can any man , -speak pre- cisely of things so sublime , but it seems to me the wit of man , his strength , his grace , his tendency , his art , is ...
... turn , as the receiver is only the All - Giver in part and in infancy . I cannot , nor can any man , -speak pre- cisely of things so sublime , but it seems to me the wit of man , his strength , his grace , his tendency , his art , is ...
Page 188
... turns out to be a rocket . Thus a man lasts but a very little while , for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious ... turn to nature , which stands next . In the divine order , intellect is pri- mary ; nature , secondary ; it is the ...
... turns out to be a rocket . Thus a man lasts but a very little while , for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious ... turn to nature , which stands next . In the divine order , intellect is pri- mary ; nature , secondary ; it is the ...
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