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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: from the latter, or seeking to find the direction which it gives to our action, people prefer to speak of an immediate and more mysterious sympathy which binds man to Nature, and especially to his dwelling-place the earth. Indeed, they prefer to speak of the earth as not merely his dwelling-place, but compare the relation between him and it to the intimate relation subsisting between mother and child, or between a parasite and the organism which supports it; they speak of the powers and tendencies to development which are inherent in the earth as being repeated under more significant forms in the bodies of men; of every internal fluctuation of telluric life as finding an echo in changes of human organization; and say that what earth herself vainly struggles to express, receives a spiritualized manifestation in the constitution of conscious beings. We have already remarked at length upon the great extent to which the character of organic beings inhabiting the surface of a planet, is determined by the special nature of the planet itself?in respect, that is, of the materials which compose it, and the conditions of mobility and capacity of combination which it prescribes to them. We have referred to a view according to which the connection between the earth and man is different from that now indicated; a view according to which not only is man forced by the nature of his material abiding- place to use particular means for the attainment of his own ends, not only is he provided by its continual influences with fresh material which the organism appropriates and elaborates after its own fashion, but moreover the whole of this human life is after all only a mystical repetition of the life of the earth, and of its internal tremors. This view seems to owe its convincing power to the stra...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217237185 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217237185 |
| Weight | 1.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.20 In |
| List Price | $33.77 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 538 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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