 | 1880 - 672 pages
...first atom has two sides." Notice also this prophetic stanza, prefixed to the same essay : " A subtile chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest...the -worm Mounts through all the spires of form." To state the religious doctrines of Emerson is a matter of delicacy. If religion were merely the equivalent... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...which doth only do, but not know." Its leading thought is that contained in its original motto, — " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." It is pure idealism which he teaches throughout this little book of less than one hundred pages, —... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1886 - 312 pages
...that, us Emerson says, — " A enbtlo chain of countless rings The next unto the furthest brings. Tim eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose. . And striving to bo man, tho worm Mounts through all tho spires of form."1 " And the poor grass shall plot arid plan... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...The far halloo of human voice ; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. / I saw the bud-crowned Spring... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...The far halloo of human voice ; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pages
...by the dawn of a great idea in the writer's mind — Evolution. It has a prelude of six lines — " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." In this essay occur such phrases as — " every chemical change, from the rudest crystal up to the... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 pages
...inspired by the dawn of a great idea in the writer's mind —Evolution. It has a prelude of six lines— " A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." In this essay occur such phrases as—" Every chemical change, from the rudest crystal up to the laws... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...Lecture read before the Mer- • cantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 . 341 NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...A Lecture read before the Mereantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 . 341 NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospeetive. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographics,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...Lecture read before the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 . 341 /\ NATURE. A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUK age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
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A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. 
