 Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself" and the modern precept, "Study nature,  The North British Review - Page 2611867Full view - About this book
 | Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - Literary Collections - 1917 - 342 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last the one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, ng down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less th at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1926 - 412 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past,... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - American essays - 1928 - 612 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept^ "Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past,... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1966 - 1002 pages
...under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root. * * * And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1971 - 316 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. II. The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar, is, the mind of the... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - Idealism - 1987 - 384 pages
...Vision", 224-227 sowie Gay Wilson Allen, Waldo Emerson, pp. 1 83 f. 12 Im "American Scholar" heißt es: "The ancient precept, 'Know thyself,' and the modern precept, 'Study nature,' become at last one maxim." (CW I, p. 55) 13 JMN V, p. 168 (1. Juni 1836). Cf. dazu die Position der ramistischen... | |
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