1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... in London in 1848, including lectures by Faraday on electricity and magnetism, Richard Owen on comparative anatomy, and Charles Lyell on geology, inaugurated "an important linguistic and conceptual reformulation" of his earlier views of "the relationship between the mind and the natural world." Robinson cites from Emerson's lecture, "The Relation of Intellect to Natural Science," first given in London in 1848: "[A]ll the secrets of natural laws are repeated in mental experience." I think Robinson ... processes an analogy toward the perception and expression of the operations of nature. ...
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