 The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 64by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
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...P], 1 : 198, from which this ("Winter Walk") passage derives. See also Emerson in Nature: "The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature,...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (CW, 1 :43). 12 Martin Heidegger, "Building Dwelling Thinking," in Poetry, Language, Thought,... | |
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...an "instantaneous in-streaming causing power" (N, 43)? Emerson's final answer is to redeem the soul: "The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken...disunited with himself. He cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit. Love is as much its demand, as perception" (N, 43). Emerson... | |
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