Philosophy

Emerson is absolutely right when he says that our science is only nomenclature and nothing else. It does not elevate us to new moral and spiritual standards. Dodge this:

"The boy had juster views when he gazed at the shells on the beach, or the flowrs in the meadow, unable to call them by their names than the man in pride of his nomenclature."

"We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling, if he could teach us what the social birds say, when they sit in autumn council, talking togeather in trees."