NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES |
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... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in ...
... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in ...
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... . But marry it to human history , and it is full of life . Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ; but the most trivial of VOL . I. 3 - - these facts , the habit of a plant LANGUAGE . 33.
... . But marry it to human history , and it is full of life . Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ; but the most trivial of VOL . I. 3 - - these facts , the habit of a plant LANGUAGE . 33.
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... whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of mat- ter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " The axioms of ...
... whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of mat- ter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " The axioms of ...
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... whole character and fortune of the individ- ual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
... whole character and fortune of the individ- ual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
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... whole series of events , and so conform all facts to his character . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode . It offers all its kingdoms to man ...
... whole series of events , and so conform all facts to his character . Nature is thoroughly mediate . It is made to serve . It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode . It offers all its kingdoms to man ...
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abstrac action American appear beauty becomes behold better cause church conservatism divine doctrine earth enon eternal exist fable fact faculties faith fear feel genius give Goethe heart heaven Heraclitus honor hope hour human ical idea intel intellect justice and truth labor land light ligion live look mankind means ment mind moral nature ness never noble objects parliaments of love perfect persons philosophy Pindar plant Plato Plotinus poet poetry rain gauges reason reform relation religion rich Saturn scholar seems sense sentiment shines society solitude soul speak spect spirit stand stars sublime things thou thought tion to-day trade Transcendentalist true truth ture universal Uranus virtue whilst whole wisdom wisdom of children wise wish words worship youth Zoroaster
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87 psl. - Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
92 psl. - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic i what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
86 psl. - As no airpump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
5 psl. - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
23 psl. - Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
31 psl. - ... new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.
27 psl. - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.
83 psl. - ... things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem. It presently learns that since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts. But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind?
218 psl. - What is a man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life?
19 psl. - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.