... and the world in terms of an individual; - the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self-all knowledge, therefore, begins with self-knowledge. This is similar to Aristotle's dictum "know thyself"; - transcendentalists accepted the neo-Platonic conception of nature as a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic; - the belief that individual virtue and ... work into each other's hands for the profit of man" and "the endless circulation of divine charity nourish man." Nature's beauty comes through "the plastic power of the human eye" which...

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