...access to its innermost chambers to all who cared to enter. No one loved Nature more than Emerson. ' The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of Nature.' 3 Differing, however, from those who looked upon the material gifts of Science, the mere utilities...

...privilege. Let us see him in his school, and consider him in reference to the main influences he receives. I. The first in time and the first in importance of...women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his...

...privilege. Let us see him in his school, and consider him in reference to the main influences he receives. I. The first in time and the first in importance of...women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his...

...privilege. Let us see him in his school, and consider him in reference to the main influences he receives. I. The first in time and the first in importance of...and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him? There is never...

...privilege. Let us see him in his school, and consider him in reference to the main influences he receives. I. The first in time and the first in importance of...blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing—beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages....

...Investigator Radio Voices Congress One Congress Two Congress Three Congress Four Congress Five Mark Van Doren The first in time and the first in importance of the...and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him ... Ralph Waldo Emerson,...

...position nature at the problematic center of its investigations. As he tells us in "The American Scholar": The first in time and the first in importance of the...day, the sun: and, after sunset, night and her stars. Even the winds blow; even the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden....

...Pauli, Writings on Physics and Philosophy, 128, 259. Chapter Three Circular Power Returning into Itself The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature . . . There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web...

...it's at. Nature is the gospel of the new faith. As Emerson wrote in his "Divinity School Address," The first in time and the first in importance of the...and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him? There is never...

...might shock any audience familiar with the Old Testament's association of beholding with begetting: Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her...men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. But no sooner did he provoke his audience with this gesture toward what he called the "unintelligible"...