id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt emerson-nature-754 Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature; Adresses, And Lectures .epub application/epub+zip 15417 827 75 And in common life, whosoever has seen a person of powerful character and happy genius, will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him, -the persons, the opinions, and the day, and nature became ancillary to a man. But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God. The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted by thought, it clothes itself in images. By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause. ./cache/emerson-nature-754.epub ./txt/emerson-nature-754.txt