 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses ; — in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so general as our...not material ; no confusion of thought will occur. Naturs, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man ; space, the air, the river, the leaf.... | |
 | 1892 - 456 pages
...Emerson says: "Philosophically considered, the Universe is composed of Nature and the Soul," and " Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man : space, air, the river, the leaf." 1 The motto of the scientific periodical " Nature." • Accepting any one... | |
 | Alfred Ayres - 1896 - 364 pages
...of Nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses — in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so general as Our...sense, refers to essences unchanged by man • space, * To those that are not quite clear as to what transcendentalism is, the following lucid definition... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 122 pages
...in both senses ; — in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so general as the present one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of thought will occur" (I, n). In the "philosophical" sense Emerson considers Nature as meaning "all that is separate from... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses; — in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so general as our...river, the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his'will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a statue, a picture. But his operations taken... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...59) 14 Cf. hierzu die grundsätzliche Unterscheidung in Nature zwischen Natur und "Kunst": "Nature... refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf. A rt is applied to he mixture of his (man 's) will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a... | |
 | Edward S. Casey - 1993 - 444 pages
...calls somewhat disdainfully "the common sense" does Emerson acknowledge the multiplicity of Nature: "Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf." The corresponding danger of monocentrism is found in the emphasis on a single, whole earth, eg, on... | |
 | Gisela Brinker-Gabler - 1995 - 390 pages
...of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses;—in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so general as our...one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of though will occur. Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air,... | |
 | Paul Jay - 1997 - 236 pages
...defined at the outset of Nature "as the NOT ME... nature and art, all other men and my own body" (8). "Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf," while "art" involves the "mixture" of humankind's "will with the same things, as in a house, a canal,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2001 - 376 pages
...the reformer, lecture of the times, I the conservative, American. the transcendentalist and the young "Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man - space, the air, the river, and the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things, as in a house, a canal,... | |
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In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses; — in its common and in its philosophical import. In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of thought will... 
