Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 57
... hand to hand , and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind . The remo- test spaces of nature are visited , and the farthest sundered things are brought together , by a sub- tile spiritual connection . We ...
... hand to hand , and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind . The remo- test spaces of nature are visited , and the farthest sundered things are brought together , by a sub- tile spiritual connection . We ...
Page 65
... hands folded upon the breast . The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship . Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit , he that thinks most , will say least . We can fore- see God in the coarse , and , as ...
... hands folded upon the breast . The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship . Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit , he that thinks most , will say least . We can fore- see God in the coarse , and , as ...
Page 78
... hands . It were a wise inquiry for the closet , to compare , point by point , espe- cially at remarkable crises in life , our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind . So shall we come to look at the world with new ...
... hands . It were a wise inquiry for the closet , to compare , point by point , espe- cially at remarkable crises in life , our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind . So shall we come to look at the world with new ...
Page 84
... hand was divided into fingers , the better to answer its end . The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime ; that there is One Man , present to all particular men only partially , or through one fac- ulty ; and that you must ...
... hand was divided into fingers , the better to answer its end . The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime ; that there is One Man , present to all particular men only partially , or through one fac- ulty ; and that you must ...
Page 88
... hand , he shall look forward to an ever ex- panding knowledge as to a becoming creator . He shall see that nature is the opposite of the soul , answering to it part for part . One is seal and one is print . Its beauty is the beauty of ...
... hand , he shall look forward to an ever ex- panding knowledge as to a becoming creator . He shall see that nature is the opposite of the soul , answering to it part for part . One is seal and one is print . Its beauty is the beauty of ...
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