... vast trope, and all particular natures are tropes. As the bird alights on the bough,--then plunges into the air again,--so the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form. All thinking is analogizing, and 'tis the use of life to learn metonomy [sic]. The ... WA ("Walking"), Emerson offers his most compressed version of this empirical correspondence of matter and mind: "Man [is] not planetary but a grasshopper. Each no god, but a trait or knack; learning metonomy is life. Provocation. Each is potentially great." (38) If life for Emerson is a process of nature's writing ... movemen...

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... sensical, became the means for a conscious union of the individual psyche (known in Sanskrit as Atman) with the world psyche also known as the Oversoul, like force, prime mover and God (known in Sanskrit as Brahma). Other basic premises were: - an individual is the spiritual center of the universe, and in an individual can be found the clue to nature, history ... and ultimately, the cosmos itself. It is not a rejection of the existance of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual; - the structure of the universe literally duplicates the struc...

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... , and uplifted into infinite space,-all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. (Baym 217) Throughout the book, Emerson discusses the importance of nature and its relationship to man. According to Emerson, both nature and man are necessary because one is needed in ... ...

• Word Count: 1963
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