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Nature

Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Title: Nature

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Release Date: July 17, 2009 [EBook #29433]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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NATURE

BY

R. W. EMERSON

A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

NEW EDITION

BOSTON & CAMBRIDGE: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY M DCCC XLIX.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849 By JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

BOSTON: THURSTON, TORRY AND COMPANY, 31 Devonshire Street.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER I.

NATURE 8

CHAPTER II.

COMMODITY 10

CHAPTER III.

BEAUTY 13

CHAPTER IV.

LANGUAGE 23

CHAPTER V.

DISCIPLINE 34