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Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - The Laws of Nature
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001846
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Henry D. Thoreau - Walden
If we knew all the Laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful.
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Thoreau, Henry DConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
TuberculosisSuppressions
Communing with natureDont hurt
Reducing desires
Reducing opportunities
Reducing threats
Suppressing memory
Suppressing obligations