To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and nature. The wonder subsists, and age, though of eternity, could not approach a solution. . . Who are we and what is Nature have one answer in the life that rushes into us.
To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and nature. The wonder subsists, and age, though of eternity, could not approach a solution. . . Who are we and what is Nature have one answer in the life that rushes into us.
When Emerson says “being” he does not mean that world of things that is taken so often for the Real. Our creations mislead us in this regard. They make us think that all nature is dead and should be subject to our will; and because we think this, we make it so.
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