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Introduction
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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld1 God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.
Undoubtedly2 we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened3 in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic4 to those inquiries5 he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends6 it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate7 the great apparition8, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature. We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation. We are now so far from the road to truth, that religious teachers dispute and hate each other, and speculative
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v.看,注视( behold的过去式和过去分词 );瞧;看呀;(叙述中用于引出某人意外的出现)哎哟 | |
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v.(使)醒( awaken的过去式和过去分词 );(使)觉醒;弄醒;(使)意识到 | |
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hieroglyphic
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inquiries
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n.调查( inquiry的名词复数 );疑问;探究;打听 | |
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逮捕,拘押( apprehend的第三人称单数 ); 理解 | |
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interrogate
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apparition
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judgment
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phenomena
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inexplicable
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philosophically
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philosophical
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strictly
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enumerating
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applied
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insignificant
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adj.无关紧要的,可忽略的,无意义的 | |
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