...himself in the introduction to an exquisite volume entitled " Nature," published in Boston in 1836. " Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It unites biographies, histories and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to...

...himself, in the introduction toan exquisite volume, entitled " Nature," published in Boston in 1836. " Our age is retrospective, it builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It unites biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face...

...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...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form .1 -i: i INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes...

...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...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' " Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we hav.e seen that...

...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 worm Mounts...

...of th» District Court of the District of Massachusetts. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless ringg The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form . CONTENTS. NATURE THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. AN ORATION BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE,...

...hundred pages, in which he develops much of his ideal philosophy. In its opening words he said : " Our age is retrospective ; it builds the sepulchres...the fathers ; it writes biographies, histories, and criticisms. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we through their eyes. Why...

...The far halloo of human voice ; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring...

...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...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." It is to an earlier period than this that some of the love-poems belong, — that for example, " To...