Philosophy VS Emerson (Excerpt 2)

In Life, Health, Furnishings  ||  05-01 ||  Tags: Philosophy   Emerson  ||  Readers: 227

   Nature, which he says"is loved by what is best in us, is all about us, inviting our perception of its remotest and most cosmic principles by surrounding us with its simpler manifestations." A man does not tie his shoes without recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature." Thus man "carries the world in his head." Whether he be a great scientist, providing by his didcovery of a sweeping physical law that he has some such constructive sense as that which guides the universe, ot whether he be a poet beholding trees as "imperfect men," who "seem to bemoan their imprionment, rooted in the ground," he is being brought into his own by perceiving "the virtue and pungency of the influence on the mind of material objects, whether inorganic or organized."

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