There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by virtue of preceding affections... Works - Page 40by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Emerson Grant Sutcliffe - 1923 - 168 pages
...be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary...the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world."8 That Nature is a mode of divine speech is exemplified, Emerson believes, in the correspondence... | |
| John Middleton Murry - 1925 - 498 pages
...man in his contemplative hours to know that, as Emerson puts it, " day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, pre-exist in necessary ideas in the mind of God ' ' ? And diat he — man — may, by his mind, penetrate to the essential core of diese things, extract their... | |
| 1925 - 770 pages
...man in his contemplative hours to know that, as Emerson puts it, ' day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary ideas in the mind of God.' And that he — man — may, by his mind, penetrate to the essential core of these things, extract their... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary...said a French philosopher, "are necessarily kinds of scoria of the substantial thoughts of 3io 311 the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary...said a French philosopher, "are necessarily kinds of sconce of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...bt a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary...world of spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of 'sprntP The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. "Material... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1927 - 216 pages
...be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms ; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, pre-exist in necessary...virtue of preceding affections, in the world of spirit. Then, after a quotation from the French philosopher who said that " Material objects are necessarily... | |
| Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...terse statement of the thesis of the entire essay, and leads immediately to the v final affirmation: "A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world." He admits that the "doctrine is abstruse," but declares that it becomes clear to a mind properly prepared.... | |
| W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 pages
...be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary...are by virtue of preceding affections, in the world ot spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference... | |
| W.J. Gavin, J.E. Blakeley - 1976 - 138 pages
...metaphor of the spirit. "There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms. . . A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible...the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world."65 The smallest fact then, should not be taken or grasped in isolation, for it points beyond... | |
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