 | Woodbridge Riley - 1915 - 390 pages
...individual comes in contact with the very spirit and being of God. . . . Taking the old figure, that the visible world and the relation of its parts is the dial plate of the invisible, he adds that the universe becomes transparent and the light of higher laws than its own shines through... | |
 | Arthur Samuel Peake, Alexander James Grieve - 1920 - 1062 pages
...especially in the Psalms, in Job, and in some of the prophetic writings. We see there how true it is that " the laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face." Indeed, with this book in our hands we find the universe becoming transparent, and the light of higher... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1923 - 668 pages
...speech is exemplified, Emerson believes, in the correspondence between ethical and scientific laws. "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. Thus, 'the whole is greater than its part'; 'reaction... | |
 | Emerson Grant Sutcliffe - 1923 - 738 pages
...speech is exemplified, Emerson believes, in the correspondence between ethical and scientific laws. "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. Thus, 'the whole is greater than its part'; 'reaction... | |
 | Josephine Miles - 1964 - 50 pages
...posture of the blade as it bends before the wind. . . . the whole of Nature is a metaphor or image of the human Mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." Such scientific titles as "On the Relation of Man to the Globe," "Water," and "The Naturalist" alternated... | |
 | Ian F. A. Bell - 1985 - 208 pages
...office within a system whereby 'the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind' exhibiting how the 'laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass' or the 'axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics'.63 Emerson's willingness to employ metaphors... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...der Entsprechung zwischen moralischem Gesetz und Naturgesetz ein, die er durch ein Swedenborgzitat - "The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." — sowie durch den sinngemäß aus Mme de Staels De l'Allemagne übernommenen Satz untermauert: "The... | |
 | Dore Ashton - 1993 - 368 pages
...thought? 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...those of matter as face to face in a glass. . . . The axioms of physics translate the law of ethics. Every universal truth, which we express in words, implies... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...thoughts? 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...the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible."10 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics.11 Thus, "the whole is greater than... | |
 | Christopher Sten - 1996 - 108 pages
...human mind." At the time he wrote Moby-Dick, he too believed, as Emerson proclaimed in Nature, that "the laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." 35 The process of "cutting in," or stripping away the whale's flesh, for example, is to be understood... | |
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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. 
