...color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open. ... ... A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet...

...1993) (reprinted here as chapter 12). David L. Prychitko Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to...digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson INTRODUCTION: WHY ECONOMISTS DISAGREE: THE ROLE OF THE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS...

...underneath all that writing. FOUR IMPERFECT THEORIES The Pragmatic Question of Experience and Belief [We] learn to prefer imperfect theories and sentences,...digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers them up and...

...heart of things must persist if we seek "somewhat progressive." A "wise writer" will concentrate on "announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit" (45). In fact, then, it is hope that drives us onward, hope for that which can only be seen dimly,...

...externalize rather than internalize it, to fail to realize the essential identity between soul and nature. "At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone," Emerson wrote, using "understanding" in Coleridge's sense...

..."poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entided to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet...

...—JOURNAL, 1836 Do you feel infinitely related? Do you find strength in a sense of kinship with all of life? At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he...

...superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity. At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he...

...vereinseitigt, „zum Zwergen seinerselbst gemacht" und einer idealistischen' Sicht der Schöpfung beraubt: „At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. (...) His relation to nature, his power over it, is through...

...vereinseitigt, „zum Zwergen seinerselbst gemacht" und einer idealistischen' Sicht der Schöpfung beraubt: „At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. (...) His relation to nature, his power over it, is through...