...expresses not only the Infinite Mind, but the finite mind as well, since all mind is in essence the same. "The whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind....answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." 5 He even speaks of 1 Cabot, Vol. II., p. 665. 2 Holmes, p. 346. 3 The Transcendentalist. See also...

...expresses not only the Infinite Mind, but the finite mind as well, since all mind is in essence the same. "The whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind....nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass."5 He even speaks of 1 Cabot, Vol. II., p. 665. 2 Holmes, p. 346. 3 The Transcendcntalist. See...

...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...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...

...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....

...beauty.") A farther use does nature have whereby she "furnishes the language of thought." "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because...answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." "By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the...

...theory a proof of the essentially ethical character of all natural law. On this he insists. "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 is...

...Emerson, "no significance but what we consciously give them when we employ them as emblems of our thought? The word is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors...to those of matter as face to face in a glass. The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied...

...have whereby she "furnishes the language of thought." "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech aTe metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor...answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass." "By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the...

...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...

...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...