 ... these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind? The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion. The chemist finds proportions...  Science - Page 259edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...measure of planetary motion. The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter; and science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact; one after another, reduces all strange constitutions,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...of planetary motion. The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout U matter ; and science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity in the most remote parts. The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact ; one after another, reduces all strange constitutions,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
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