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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. 'The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the... "
Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 27
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 315 pages
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Proceedings, Abstracts of Lectures and a Brief Report of the Discussions of ...

National Education Association of the United States - 1890 - 944 pages
...visible things are emblems." Emerson said : " Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact, The visible world and the relation of its parts is the dial-plate of the invisible. . . . It is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genins...
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures, Volumes 1-2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...we consciously give them when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, " the whole...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ...

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 400 pages
...expresses not only the Infinite Mind, but the finite mind as well, since all mind is in essence the same. "The whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind....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 Transcendentalist. See also...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ...

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pages
...expresses not only the Infinite Mind, but the finite mind as well, since all mind is in essence the same. "The whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind....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 Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...we consciously give them when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? 1 The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, " the whole...
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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 New England Magazine, Volume 32; Volume 38

1905 - 758 pages
...farther use does nature have whereby she "furnishes the language of thought." "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of...answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." "By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the...
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The Yale Review

1913 - 816 pages
...what we consciously give them when we employ them as emblems of our thought? The word is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of...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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The New England Magazine, Volume 32; Volume 38

1905 - 770 pages
...have whereby she "furnishes the language of thought." "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech aTe metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor...answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." "By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the...
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