 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
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beäst and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. (p. 22) Der "French philosopher", den Emerson zitiert mit dem Ausspmch, alles Materielle sei eine Art... | |
 | Richard Weiss - 1969 - 292 pages
...in spirit to manifest itself in material forms" and insisted "that day and night, river and stream, beast and bird, acid and alkali, pre-exist in necessary ideas in the mind of God." 24 All that men knew as reality was merely the objective manifestation of a pre-existing idea. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau - 1994 - 148 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 the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 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 scoriae [dross] of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation... | |
 | Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - 1997 - 276 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...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. ... ... A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand... | |
 | Arthur Versluis - 2001 - 240 pages
...archetypes (in the Logos), which the world of appearances embodies for us. "Day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God ... in the world of spirit."12 These Ideas are in the Logos, which is also the means of translation... | |
 | Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 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...Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by preceding affections in the world of spirit ...~2 A life in harmony with Nature, the love of truth... | |
 | Roger N. Lancaster - 2003 - 466 pages
...a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms. . . . [D]ay and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary...preceding affections in the world of spirit. A Fact is but the end or last issue of spirit." In evolutionary psychology, as well, "every natural process is... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...totality be resolved into the single instance? How can nature be named?78 In Nature, Emerson's answer is: "A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world," making material objects the "scoriae," or excrement of the Creator — as Kenneth Burke says, "nothing... | |
 | Sanja Sostaric - 2003 - 364 pages
...writes in Nature: " 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...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world" ("Nature," SE: 54). The problem of evil remains an unresolved paradox in Plotinus' system: if matter... | |
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