...How they do seem to fly, so rapidly and lightly along. Emerson strikes deeper still when he says, '' Words are signs of natural facts. The use of natural history is to give us supernatural history. Every word used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root,...

...How they do seem to fly, so rapidly and lightly along. Emerson strikes deeper still when he says, " Words are signs of natural facts. The use of natural history is to give us supernatural history. Every word used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root,...

...are signs of natural faets. 2. Particular natural faets are symbols of particular spiritual faets. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit. 1. Words are signs of natural faets. The use ' of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history ; the use of the outer...

...final cause of Nature. CHAPTER IV. LANGUAGE. LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a simple,...of spirit 1. Words are signs of natural facts. The uso of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history; the use of the outer creation, to...

...final cause of Nature. CHAPTER IV. LANGUAGE. LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a simple,...spiritual facts. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit. i. Words are signs of natural facts. The use of by which this transformation is made, is hidden from...

...final cause of Nature. CHAPTER IV. LANGUAGE. LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a simple,...natural history is to give us aid in supernatural histoiy ; the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward...

...expression of the final cause of Nature.3 IV LANGUAGE LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a simple,...spiritual facts. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit. i. Words are signs of natural facts. The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history...

...Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit. i. Words are signs of natural facts. The use of natural history is to give us aid in super- / natural history ; the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes...

...expression of the final cause of Nature. IV. LANGUAGE LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves to man. vain race to change the form Of thy fair works. But...winds That run along the summit of these trees 40 I. Words are signs of natural facts. The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history;...

...created a context for mid-nineteenth century American allegory in the essay "Nature." There he argues: 1. Words are signs of natural facts. 2. Particular...spiritual facts. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit. While the last two statements may seem the most revolutionary, and the first merely an obvious restatement...