rame2000sat
04-06-2006, 09:50 AM
Please, real help:
I have difficulties understanding a paragraph from the Norton Anthology of American literature, Third Edition, Volume 1, page 984, The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson In literature class and I have an exam in it. He is an American writer who wrote about the Romanticism and their thoughts. I need some one who has a huge knowledge about it in order to explain the thirteen paragraphs from The Poet which is;
The universe is the externization of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self_existant; but these are the retinue of that Being we have" the mighty heaven," said Proclus, " exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of in of intellectual natures." Therefore science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. Since everything in nature answers to moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
I have difficulties understanding a paragraph from the Norton Anthology of American literature, Third Edition, Volume 1, page 984, The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson In literature class and I have an exam in it. He is an American writer who wrote about the Romanticism and their thoughts. I need some one who has a huge knowledge about it in order to explain the thirteen paragraphs from The Poet which is;
The universe is the externization of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self_existant; but these are the retinue of that Being we have" the mighty heaven," said Proclus, " exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of in of intellectual natures." Therefore science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. Since everything in nature answers to moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.