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... Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 34by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...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... | |
| Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thought ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind." Again, a little further on : There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...significance but what 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 nature J» a nieiaph^r.jjf_the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face... | |
| 1884 - 354 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.1... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of Ihe invisible." The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, " the whole... | |
| 1890 - 946 pages
...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 since... | |
| 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...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 - 1899 - 386 pages
...significance but what we consciously give them when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because...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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