...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...

...Modern Library, 1940), p. 56. it was a reflection of man's inner soul, and so Emerson could say, " 'Know thyself,' and the modern precept, 'Study nature,' become at last one maxim."34 The direction that Platonic idealism took in America as opposed to Germany can be appreciated,...

...Vision", 224-227 sowie Gay Wilson Allen, Waldo Emerson, pp. 1 83 f. 12 Im "American Scholar" heißt es: "The ancient precept, 'Know thyself,' and the modern...precept, 'Study nature,' become at last one maxim." (CW I, p. 55) 13 JMN V, p. 168 (1. Juni 1836). Cf. dazu die Position der ramistischen Logik: Der Mensch...

...summoning after he had read Nature, but there was another call in this address which made him listen: "So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. . . . 'Know thyself,' and . . . 'Study nature' become at last one maxim."" Another passage in Nature...

...Emerson's. He is too well "versed in country things" to agree with Emerson, in "The American Scholar," that "the ancient precept, 'Know Thyself,' and the modern...precept, 'Study Nature,' become at last one maxim." As I have said, Wright's poetry is a lesson in acceptance and accommodation. But that does not mean...

...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...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...

...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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson What basis is there for applying a human ethical system to our treatment of...

...into nature unlocks depths in the self: "Nature then becomes to [man] the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess" (CW\, 55). By 1852-53 Thoreau had grown skeptical of Emerson's "seal" and "print" correspondences between...

...innocent, infinite American self was still an actor in a great spiritual drama; when Emerson wrote that the "ancient precept 'Know thyself' and the modern precept 'Study nature' become at last one maxim," he was articulating a deeply felt Romantic conviction that the law of God permeated both the self and...

...and one is print. Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind. Its laws are the laws of his own mind ... So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of...precept 'Study nature,' become at last one maxim." Emerson, too, thought at one time that he would become a naturalist. Insofar as Transcendentalism was...