...BEAUTY 286 IX. ILLUSIONS • • •'• • • • • *99 EMERSON'S ESSAYS NATURE A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings;...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 349 ERRATA. Pages 317 and 319 —for 1841 read 13J2. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...RBAD TO THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 . 349 NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form .1 -i: i INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes...

...of nature are evolutionary ; that, as Emerson expressed it, in the fine pre-Darwinian lines : — " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." But Alcott's theory was quite the reverse of this, — that man, instead of ascending through nature,...

...Nature. Depend on it, all that is has its secret thread to ourselves, and may teach us. ' A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' " Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we hav.e seen that...

...next unto the farthest brings ; The eye rcuJ^ omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the ruse ; And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' "Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we have seen that...

...hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It 'writes biographies,...

...of th» District Court of the District of Massachusetts. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless ringg The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form . CONTENTS. NATURE THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. AN ORATION BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE,...

...Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth, Stepping daily onward north To greet staid ancient cavaliers...

...REALIST ....... 533 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ....... 547 MISCELLANIES. VOL. 1. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...