Nature

1836·3.2 MB·English

by  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

University ofCalifornia Berkeley
Purchased as the gift of
Mr. & Mrs.
Stephen Walter

NATURE.
"Nature is butan imagoor imitationofwisdom, the last thing
of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not
know."
PLOTINUS.
BOSTON:
JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.
MDCCC XXXVI.
Entered, accordingto the Act ofCongress, inthe year 1836,
ByJAMES MUNROS & Co.
intheClerk'sOfficeoftheDistrictCourtoftheDistrictof
Massachusetts.
CambridgePress:
Metcalf,Torry,&,Ballou.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER
I.
NATURE.
CHAPTER
II.
COMMODITY. 15
CHAPTER
III.
BEAUTY. 19
CHAPTER IV.
LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER V.
DISCIPLINE. 46
CHAPTER VI.
IDEALISM. 59
.
CHAPTER VII.
SPIRIT. 76
CHAPTER VIII.
PROSPECTS. 82