Friday, October 18, 2013

Nature Questions Pg. 375

Questions 1-3 and 6 on page 375.
1.) No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
2.) Nature is a spiritual symbol, words are natural, and particular facts are that of spiritual ones.
3.) The occult relation of man and vegetable.
6.) Nature takes on emotion of man by being connected and always harmonized. 

Emerson writes nature as a way to show how he believes nature and man to be connected. Not only does he believe that it is harmonized with man, but that nature's emotions change along with man's. He says that the greatest delight the fields minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. By this, he means that he enjoys the connection that he believes to exist between man and nature. He also states that the delight received from this connection does not ascend from man or nature, but from both when they are harmonized only as one.

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