 Nature has not left himself without a witness in any sane mind : that the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the Universe was made ; that we find parity, identity of design, through Nature, and benefit to be the uniform aim : that...  Works - Page 388by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1873 - 860 pages
...time and space for man, and bodied itself forth into a heaven and hell for him. — Curlylf. TIIEKK is a Force always at work to make the best better, and the worst good. C o THBOUOB virtuous scntiroenta creates its.-lf. » » * v, is without c '" '"'Bd uuJs to ripen ]ikt,... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 416 pages
...Author of nature has not left himself without a witness in any sane mind ; that the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the universe...worst good. We have had, not long since, presented to us by Max Miiller, a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all extraordinary in itself,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 440 pages
...Author of Nature has not left himself without a witness in any sane mind : that the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the Universe...good. We have had not long since presented us by Max M tiller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all extraordinary in itself, but only as coming... | |
 | New England - 1903 - 820 pages
...Author of Nature has not left himself without a witness in any sane mind; that the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the universe...at work to make the best better and the worst good. . . . "I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now hold the opinions they are charged... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...Author of Nature has not left himself without a witness in any sane mind ; that the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the universe...work to make the best better and the worst good." " The identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart." " The moral sentiment speaks to every... | |
 | New England - 1904 - 850 pages
...of the two leading literati of the time, — Emerson's optimism as implied in the lines, "There is force always at work to make the best better and the worst good," Carlyle's pessimism, of which Ruskin says, "He was born in the clouds and struck by lightning." Emerson... | |
 | Theology - 1884 - 354 pages
...spoke from the platform of the Free Religious Association, fifteen years ago : " The moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the universe was made." It was the last word of the famous 'Harvard address of 1838 : " I look for the new Teacher, that shall... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - Authors, American - 1885 - 530 pages
...loft himself without a witness in any sane mind ; that tlio inor.il sentiment speaks to every roan the law after which the universe was made ; that we...work to make the best better and the worst good." " The identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart." " The moral sentiment speaks to every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 438 pages
...Author of Nature has not left himself without a witness in any sane mind : that the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the Universe...good. We have had not long since presented us by Max M tiller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all extraordinary in itself, but only as coming... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 320 pages
...with the assertion of " parity, identity of design, through Nature," that he declared that we find " benefit to be the uniform aim: ( that there is a force...work to make the best better and the worst good." This is Emerson's rationale of the dynamics and the teleology of evolution ; and there is no other... | |
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