 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - 2003 - 636 pages
...homely game 1 In Nature Emerson had said, "Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact .... Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of...answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." Nature; Addresses, and Lecures, pp. 24, 3o. See also Bushnell on language, pp. 319-37o. [Ed.] of life... | |
 | Arnold H. Modell - 2003 - 284 pages
...twentieth century.) Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was not acquainted with Vico, said, "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind" (1847, p. 18). Vico further stated, "It is noteworthy that in all languages the greater part of the... | |
 | Steven Simpson - 2003 - 208 pages
...meanings. But how great a language to convey such peppercorn informations!. ...The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.5 If there is a word that should catch the attention of an experiential educator, it is "metaphor."... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
..."find" and "discern" the principles of order. Emerson alludes to Bacon in Nature when he declares: "Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the •47 human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. 'The... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 2003 - 408 pages
...and mind, he says, is not a fancied one, but stands in the will of God ; 8 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... | |
 | Thomas R Dunlap - 2004 - 236 pages
...between visible things and human thoughts.... Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.... The whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind....answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." 8 By their works, but more by the examples of their lives, Thoreau and Muir established a tradition... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - 2004 - 444 pages
...knowledge of Nature will throw light. . . . And this, because the whole of Nature is a metaphor or image of the human Mind. The laws of moral nature answer...matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world," it has been well said, "and the relations of its parts is the dial plate of the invisible one." In... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...reached their best-known expression in the "Language" chapter of Nature. Emerson still insisted that parts of speech "are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind" (E&L 24). The "powers" given by God allow "human minds" to perceive nature as "one mighty alphabet"... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 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...answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference... | |
 | Elizabeth R. Epperly - 2007 - 241 pages
...attentive eye, this conscious viewer, this stable creative force sees that 'The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind' (19). In beholding a 'rich landscape' Emerson says he loses all sense of its distinctive elements -... | |
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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... 
