 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena, as of heat, water, azote ; but to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon, not a substance; to attribute necessary existence to spirit...  Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Seite 48von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 642 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Jay Chapman - 1998 - 244 Seiten
...perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years.... It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind,...faith in the stability of particular phenomena, as heat, water, azote; but to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon, not a substance; to attribute necessary... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 Seiten
...mind, Emerson pushes on to contend that "it is the uniform effect of culture [education, consciousness] on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability...of particular phenomena, as of heat, water, azote [nitrogen]; but to lead us to regard nature as a phenomenon, not a substance; to attribute necessary... | |
 | Peter Sharpe - 2004 - 400 Seiten
...respected, and his faith therein is perfect. . . . But whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence...our faith in the stability of particular phenomena . . . but to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon, not as substance.14 (Italics added.) Ontological... | |
 | Onno Oerlemans - 2004 - 268 Seiten
...resists being read, that it is not a text. And this ought to inspire awe and respect. <£ncCofth aure, It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind,...our faith in the stability of particular phenomena ... but to lead us to regard nature as a phenomenon, not a substance; to attribute necessary existence... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 2005 - 453 Seiten
...acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature remains open. It is the uniform. effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake oar faith in the stability of particular phenomena, as of heat, water, azote ; but to lead us to regard... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 Seiten
...affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? But whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature, still remains open. The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it; the air resembles the light which traverses... | |
 | 116 Seiten
...illusion and its laws are permanent, what is the reality which imposes these laws? The answer is obvious. "It is the uniform effect of culture on the human...heat, water, azote; but to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon, not a substance; to attribute necessary existence to spirit ; to esteem nature as an accident... | |
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