He shall see that nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part. One is seal and one is print. Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments.... Nature ; Addresses and Lectures - Página 85de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 461 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1911 - 448 páginas
...circumference — in the mass and in the particle, nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the past — in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the... | |
| Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 páginas
...mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of...spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, — in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the... | |
| Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 páginas
...mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of...spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, — in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 518 páginas
...mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of Nature as he is ignorant of, so much of...spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past — in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the... | |
| Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 páginas
...mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of...spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, — in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 páginas
...mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of...spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the Past, — in whatever form, whether of literature, of an, of institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 páginas
...mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of...spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the Past, — in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the... | |
| Mark Van Doren - 1916 - 162 páginas
...a taint, though it is scarcely a " sickly " or an " unmanly " taint. Emerson, who pronounced that " in fine the ancient precept, ' Know thyself,' and...precept, ' Study Nature,' become at last one maxim," was himself tainted with mad (if manly) intellectual egoism. And Thoreau, who always went one step... | |
| Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 344 páginas
...mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind. Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of...precept, " Study nature," become at last one maxim. H. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, — in whatever... | |
| Henry David Gray - 1917 - 122 páginas
...and can be wholly known to man since "its laws are laws of his own mind;" and hence he could say that "the ancient precept, 'Know thyself,' and the modern...precept, 'Study nature,' become at last one maxim" (I, 88). But so long as he gave even a nominal adherence to the purely idealistic theory of the dependence... | |
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