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" The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "
Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 30
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...and mind, he says, is not a fancied one, but stands in the will of God ; 3 so that " the laws of .the moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." 4 ." Intellect and morals appear only the material forces on a higher plane. The laws of material nature...
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...each other, and are only the inward and outward conditions of one and the same being.' The laws of the moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. So intimate is this relation, so identical, that man can know the external by solf-revclation. ' Man...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...world is cmblcm-• /^atic. Parts of spcech are metaphors, beeause the I whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer...is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physies translate the j laws of ethios. Thus, " the whole is greater than its 1 part ; " " reaetion...
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Works, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...The world is emblempatic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the . whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer...The visible world and the relation of its parts, is tho dial plate of the , invisible." Tho axioms of physics translate the \ laws of ethics. Thus, " the...
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The Princeton Review, Volume 14

1884 - 354 pages
...man." As with the intellectual, so too with the moral. " The laws of moral nature," says Emerson, " answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." This thought was fundamental in his ethics, and he lost no good occasion to emphasize and urge it.1...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer...and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of Ihe invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, " the whole is greater than...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ...

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 390 pages
...the finite mind as well, since all mind is in essence the same. "The whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." 6 He even speaks of 1 Cabot, Vol. II., p. 665. * Holmes, p. 346. * The Transcendentalist . See also...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ...

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pages
...the finite mind as well, since all mind is in essence the same. "The whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass."5 He even speaks of 1 Cabot, Vol. II., p. 665. 2 Holmes, p. 346. 3 The Transcendcntalist. See...
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The Influence of Emerson

Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 320 pages
...man." As with the intellectual, so, too, with the moral. " The laws of moral nature," says Emerson, "answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." This thought was* fundamental in his ethics, and he lost no good occasion to emphasize and urge it....
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The Yale Review

1913 - 816 pages
...thought? The word is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer...to those of matter as face to face in a glass. The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied...
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