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... dialogue but the very possibility of its being conducted at all . For the dialogue was founded upon the assumption that all experience contains two absolute ingredients : a subject and an object . Bryant was never to criticize this ...
... dialogue but the very possibility of its being conducted at all . For the dialogue was founded upon the assumption that all experience contains two absolute ingredients : a subject and an object . Bryant was never to criticize this ...
Page 77
... dialogue was maintained , albeit somewhat one- sidedly ; and the vastness of Nature was not diminished through a trivial metaphor . Bryant could have his visual imagery , yet deny it , too , as the very lines in which the still voice ...
... dialogue was maintained , albeit somewhat one- sidedly ; and the vastness of Nature was not diminished through a trivial metaphor . Bryant could have his visual imagery , yet deny it , too , as the very lines in which the still voice ...
Page 78
... dialogue no longer assumes that the voice of man is capable of bouncing echoes off an objective mountain ; it proceeds in the understanding that the very images , words , sounds , and ideas projected by man are merely chips and slivers ...
... dialogue no longer assumes that the voice of man is capable of bouncing echoes off an objective mountain ; it proceeds in the understanding that the very images , words , sounds , and ideas projected by man are merely chips and slivers ...
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