...WAY 268 VIII. BEAUTY 286 IX. ILLUSIONS • • •'• • • • • *99 EMERSON'S ESSAYS NATURE A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 3 EREATA. Pages 317 and 319 — for 1841 read 1842. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,...

...AMERICAN. A LBCTURB RBAD TO THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 . 349 NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form .1 -i: i INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes...

...of nature are evolutionary ; that, as Emerson expressed it, in the fine pre-Darwinian lines : — " Striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." But Alcott's theory was quite the reverse of this, — that man, instead of ascending through nature,...

...fibre of Nature. Depend on it, all that is has its secret thread to ourselves, and may teach us. ' A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.' " Let me now show that we can not tell how far conscious life descends from man, as we hav.e seen that...

...fibre of Nature. Depend on it, all that is has its secret thread to ourselves, and may teach us. ' A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye rcuJ^ omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the ruse ; And striving to be man, the worm Mounts...

...elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It 'writes biographies,...

...of th» District Court of the District of Massachusetts. NATURE. A subtle chain of countless ringg The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form . CONTENTS. NATURE THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. AN ORATION BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE,...

...The far halloo of human voice ; The perfumed berry on the spray Smacks of faint memories far away. A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. I saw the bud-crowned Spring...

...which contains a few of those sententious couplets that were afterward so common in his volumes. " A subtle chain of countless rings, The next unto the...man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form." It is to an earlier period than this that some of the love-poems belong, — that for example, " To...