...is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation. It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.' To speak in the same way of Discipline, ' Nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellectual...

...that is, which depend directly on Nature. Emerson emphasizes "the advantage which the country life possesses, for a powerful mind, over the artificial and curtailed life of cities," and declares that the natural images, insensibly received into the mind, will, "at the call of a noble...

...is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper , any better. The rush to California, for instance,...merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in country life possesses, for a powerful mind, over the artificial and curtailed life of cities. We know...

...combination, combining of experience with the present action of the mind. It is (14) true, sincere, proper creation. It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made. -€59°*=SELECTION FROM "ON STYLE" By HENRY DAVID THOREAU A PERFECTLY healthy sentence, it is true,...

...commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God It is proper creation. It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made. That is presumably one of the dicta which moved early American reviewers (who in those days sometimes...

...second to nature in his list of teachers for the American Scholar, and in his first book he speaks of "the advantage which the country-life possesses, for...over the artificial and curtailed life of cities." 6 A second, earlier version of pastoral is the pre-Rousseau tradition of Ovid, Horace, The Tempest,...

...is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation. It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.56 Remarkable for its associating the connection between thought and the physical images embodied...

...himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that." 49 This is "proper creation"; it is "the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made" 50 —and in this sense the Sphinx is, like Brahma, her own hymn. Thus "The Sphinx," viewed as Emerson's...

...imagery is spontaneous It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation. It is the working of the Original Cause...curtailed life of cities. We know more from nature when we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its presence...

...is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation. It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made. (EsandLs, 23} In a shocking shift, Emerson celebrates the "proper creation" of the mind only to attribute...