 Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man. In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates...  The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interactionpor Christian C. Young - 2005 - 299 páginasSin vista previa disponible - Acerca de este libro
 | Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 550 páginas
...under the rustling leaves of the aspen and the musical moaning of the pine. " The universe," he said, " constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions...laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving them. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and nohle a design, but some of his posterity at... | |
 | Agnes Maule Machar - 1906 - 298 páginas
...Love. Yet, we must all help on, as far as we can. I take comfort in a thought I found in my Thoreau — 'The universe constantly and obediently answers to...laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving them. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design, but some of his posterity at... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 páginas
...character, until the truth is revealed to it by some holy teacher, and then it knows itself to be Brahm." I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live...laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving them. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 páginas
...character, until the truth is revealed to it by some holy teacher, and then it knows itself to be Brahtn." I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live...laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving them. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 372 páginas
...the ueiuetual instilling thar surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to ollf conceptions : whether we travel fast or slow, the...laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving them. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at... | |
 | Brooks Atkinson - 1927 - 186 páginas
...instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers our conceptions ; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us." Here were none of the stuffy superstitions of hell fire and brimstone, of redemption by penance, nor... | |
 | Brooks Atkinson - 1927 - 182 páginas
...and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers pur conceptions ; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us." Here were none of the stuffy superstitions of hell fire and brimstone, of redemption by penance, nor... | |
 | Victor Witter Turner, Edward M. Bruner - 1986 - 404 páginas
...and a confidence in the match between the natural order and human understanding. As Thoreau put it, "The universe constantly and obediently answers to...for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then" (p. 105). From Kant came the idea that the categories of our perception cooperate in the generation... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 páginas
...and peril of the notion that nature "answers" to us: then it is up to us to put the right question. "The universe constantly and obediently answers to...we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us" (97). The optimism echoes Emerson's in the opening of Nature: "whatever curiosity the order of things... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 páginas
...whole country" (117-18). To counter-act in such a world, we must all become practicing scientists. "Whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us" (97). Who, then, laid that track? The building of the railroad instances the social injustice of man... | |
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