Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. But to a sound judgment, the mostĪbstract truth is the most practical. Religious teachers dispute and hate each other, and speculative menĪre esteemed unsound and frivolous. We are now so far from the road to truth, that Theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach Let us inquire, to what end is nature?Īll science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature. The great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.
In its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. He acts it as life,īefore he apprehends it as truth. Is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. In our minds, the order of things can satisfy. We must trust the perfection of the creation soįar, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. There is more wool and flax in the fields. Living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the To us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed forĪ season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us,Īnd invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature,
Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetryĪnd philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face we, through their eyes. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature An introduction to Nature
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