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<Text id=EmeNatr>
<Author>Emerson, Ralph Waldo</Author>
<Title>Nature: Addresses and Lectures</Title>
<Edition>Essays and Lectures. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1849</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>EmeNatr5</locdoc><milestone n=5>
<div0 type=chapter n=Introduction>
<l> A subtle chain of countless rings</l>
<l> The next unto the farthest brings;</l>
<l> The eye reads omens where it goes,</l>
<l> And speaks all languages the rose;</l>
<l> And, striving to be man, the worm</l>
<l> Mounts through all the spires of form.</l>
</loc><loc><locdoc>EmeNatr7</locdoc><milestone n=7>
<p>Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres
of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and
criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature
face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we
also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should
not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of
tradition, and a reli . . .
