 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...what we consciously give them when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? The world is emblematic. d as I was walking there and looking up on the sky and clouds, there came into my mind so s dial plate of the invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...as» emblems of our thoughts? The world is emblematic. Parts \\ of speech are metaphors, becaugg_the whole of nature is a ' metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature anuwer Lo thuMj'Cf matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts,... | |
 | 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
...nicht vom Menschen mit Bedeutung aufgeladen, sie sind in sich bedeutsam: "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind." (p. 21) Hier führt Emerson die für sein Denken als ganzes konstitutive These von der Entsprechung... | |
 | Katina P. Strauch, Bruce Strauch - 1990 - 160 pages
...solve problems in this mutually troublesome area of serials acquisitions. 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 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... 
