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... moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material ap- pearance . Right means straight ; wrong means twisted . Spirit primarily means wind ; trans- gression , the crossing of a line ...
... moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material ap- pearance . Right means straight ; wrong means twisted . Spirit primarily means wind ; trans- gression , the crossing of a line ...
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... 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 physics translate the laws of ethics . Thus , " the whole is ...
... 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 physics translate the laws of ethics . Thus , " the whole is ...
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... moral side . " - This doctrine is abstruse , and though the im ages of " garment , " " scoriæ , " " mirror , " & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . " Every ...
... moral side . " - This doctrine is abstruse , and though the im ages of " garment , " " scoriæ , " " mirror , " & c . , may stimulate the fancy , we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make it plain . " Every ...
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... moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color , and motion ; that every globe in the remotest heaven , every chemical change from the rudest ...
... moral ; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature . Therefore is nature glorious with form , color , and motion ; that every globe in the remotest heaven , every chemical change from the rudest ...
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... moral sentence . The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference . It is the pith and marrow of every substance , every relation , and every pro- cess . All things with which we deal , preach to us . What is ...
... moral sentence . The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference . It is the pith and marrow of every substance , every relation , and every pro- cess . All things with which we deal , preach to us . What is ...
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Página 39 - When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Página 16 - Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God.
Página 15 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 113 - Mr. President and Gentlemen, this conlideuce in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
Página 77 - But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Página 40 - A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text. By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
Página 57 - No, it was builded far from accident; It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls Under the blow of thralled discontent, Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls: It fears not policy, that heretic, Which works on leases of short-number'd hours. But all alone stands hugely politic...
Página 40 - There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by virtue of preceding affections in the world of spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. "Material objects...
Página 73 - For us, the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see, but means our good. As our delight, or as our treasure; The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. "The stars have us to bed: Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws. Music and light attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind, In their descent and being; to our mind, In their ascent and cause.
Página 31 - 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.