Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1849
Contents
- Introduction
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing …
- Chapter I: Nature
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though …
- Chapter II: Commodity
Whoever considers the final cause of the world, will discern a multitude of uses that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of …
- Chapter III: Beauty
A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of …
- Chapter IV: Language
Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle, and threefold …
- Chapter V: Discipline
In view of the significance of nature, we arrive at once at a new fact, that nature is a discipline. This use of the world includes the …
- Chapter VI: Idealism
Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning of the world conveyed to man, the immortal pupil, in every object of …
- Chapter VII: Spirit
It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressive. Uses that are exhausted or that may be, …
- Chapter VIII: Prospects
In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest. That which seems faintly …
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nature. 1849. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society. https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/nature-emerson.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1849), The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/nature-emerson.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nature. 1849. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/nature-emerson.
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