Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.


Selections from the prose works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1926)


The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes...

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes...

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes...

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes...