...WAY 268 VIII. BEAUTY 286 IX. ILLUSIONS • • •'• • • • • *99 EMERSON'S ESSAYS NATURE A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the...

...ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 3 EREATA. Pages 317 and 319 — for 1841 read 1842. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the...

...next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...AMERICAN. A LBCTURB RBAD TO THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 . 349 NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the...

...of nature are evolutionary ; that, as Emerson expressed it, in the fine pre-Darwinian lines : — " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." But Alcott's theory was quite the reverse of this, — that man, instead of ascending through nature,...

...fibre of Nature. Depend on it, all that is has its secret thread to ourselves, and may teach us. ' A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye rcuJ^ omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the ruse ; And striving to be man, the...

...elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the...

...hearts expectance sweet, | As if to-morrow should redeem .! The vanished rose of evening's dream. , By houses lies a fresher green, On men and maids a...daily onward north To greet staid ancient cavaliers Filing single in stately train. And who, and who are the travellers ? They were Night and Day, and...

...at the quadruped and walks ; arrives at the man and thinks.' him is on the ascent : Everything with A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man. the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. In this last couplet he expressed integrally Darwin's doctrine of evolution many years before the "...

...which contains a few of those sententious couplets that were afterward so common in his volumes. " A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the farthest brings: The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose. And, striving to be man, the...