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emerson-method-734	Ralph Waldo Emerson	The Method Of Nature			.epub	application/epub+zip	7609	366	74	That no single end may be selected, and nature judged thereby, appears from this, that if man himself be considered as the end, and it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded. When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common, as fast as the madrepores make coral, -suns and planets hospitable to souls, -and then shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there, -duke and marshal, abbe and madame, -a gambling table where each is laying traps for the other, where the end is ever by some lie or fetch to outwit your rival and ruin him with this solemn fop in wig and stars, -the king; one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy, and if so, whether the experiment have not failed, and whether it be quite worth while to make more, and glut the innocent space with so poor an article.	./cache/emerson-method-734.epub	./txt/emerson-method-734.txt