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Show us with idealism & I have no hostility t nature, but a child's love to it. I expan and live in the warm day like corn an melons. Let us speak her fair & I do no wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother nor soil my gentle nest. I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regar to man, wherein to establish man, all righ education tends; as the ground which t attain is the object of human life, that is of man's connexion with nature. Cultur inverts the vulgar views of nature, an brings the mind to call that apparent, whic it uses to call real, and that real, which i uses to call visionary. Children, it is true believe in the external world. The belie that it appears only, is an afterthought but wit culture, this faith wil as surel arise on the mind as did the first The advantage of the ideal theory ove the popular faith, is this, that it present the world in precisely that view which i most desirable to the mind. It is, in fact the view which Reason, both speculativ and practical, that is, philosophy an vir tue, take. For, seen in the light of thought the world always is phenomenal; and virtue subordinates it to the mind. Idealis 7 Digital Image© 2005 Marriott Li of Utah. All rights reserved |