“ God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836). copy citation
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Source | Nature |
| Topic | compromise God |
| Date | 1836 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nature,_Addresses_and_Lectures/Nature |
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“Be it what it may, it is ideal to me, so long as I cannot try the accuracy of my senses.
The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory, as if its consequences were burlesque; as if it affected the stability of nature. It surely does not. God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession. Any distrust of the permanence of laws, would paralyze the faculties of man. Their permanence is sacredly respected, and his faith therein is perfect. The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature.”
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