...and informed by spiritual archetypes (in the Logos), which the world of appearances embodies for us. "Day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid...alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God ... in the world of spirit."12 These Ideas are in the Logos, which is also the means of translation...

...declares that "there seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms" and that "day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid...alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God" (43-44). He refers to material objects in the terms of a French philosopher he omits identifying, as...

...delightfully straightforward, in his proposition that "nature is the symbol of spirit," and that therefore "the visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world."7 Everything we see is a manifestation of spirit. This openness and directness is Emerson's...

...equal greatness ...71 There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; and day and night, river and storm, beast and bird,...Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by preceding affections in the world of spirit ...~2 A life in harmony with Nature, the love of truth...

...metaphysical nature: "There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms. . . . [D]ay and night, river and storm, beast and bird,...preceding affections in the world of spirit. A Fact is but the end or last issue of spirit." In evolutionary psychology, as well, "every natural process is...

...does not exhaust itself as a terminal product, but is the emblem or the outer sign of another reality: "A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world" (25). But this intangible level or supplement of reality is in fact much older than the Romantic movement...

...writes in Nature: " There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms; [...] A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world" ("Nature," SE: 54). The problem of evil remains an unresolved paradox in Plotinus' system: if matter...

...totality be resolved into the single instance? How can nature be named?78 In Nature, Emerson's answer is: "A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible...terminus or the circumference of the invisible world," making material objects the "scoriae," or excrement of the Creator — as Kenneth Burke says, "nothing...

...strictly emblematic character of the material world" ("English Literature: Introductory," EL i: 224); "The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world" (Nature, LAE 25). What is caducous has successfully transmigrated from physicality and visibility to...

...this conceptual congruence is Emerson's assertion that the elements of nature are the final emanations of spirit: "A fact is the end or last issue of spirit....terminus or the circumference of the invisible world" (E, 25). All the facts of nature "preexist in the necessary Ideas in the mind of God," and the better...