Accepting the Universe: Essays in NaturalismConstable, 1920 - 327 páginas |
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adjusted animal astronomic beauty behold beneficence Big Dipper biological birds celestial mechanics chance chemical chemical affinity clouds conception contradictions cosmic cosmos course creation creatures creeds cruel cruelty death Devil disease divine doctrine of chance earth earthquakes elements Emerson emotions energy Eternal evil evolution fact faith fall finite flood flowers forces forms geologic geologic ages germs globe gravity heavens human Infinite light living body living things look man's marvelous universe matter mind moral mystery Nature Nature's naturist never non-living numbers organic orthogenesis ourselves pantheism perpetual pestilence physical plant poets problem of evil race rain reason religion religious result sense set evolution sidereal space soul species sphere spirit stars struggle suffering teleology thought tion tooth and claw tornadoes trees truth ture universe vast well-being Whitman whole wind
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Página 171 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 202 - I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now...
Página 65 - Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed...
Página 319 - I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward. My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels, He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit, And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
Página 319 - No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth, Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of the earth.
Página 318 - The divine ship sails the divine sea for you. Whoever you are ! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid, You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky, For none more than you are the present and the past, For none more than you is immortality.
Página 23 - The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and so they appear not transparent but opaque.
Página 317 - ... aesthetic or intellectual, Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good, Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories, The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States; Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons, Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,...
Página 317 - Be composed— be at ease with me— I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.