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work_gab64pkn4val7juljk3pw5xha4	Peter Murphy	Nature's God: Emerson and the Greeks	2008.0	12	.pdf	application/pdf	3734	320	73	'Nature's God: Emerson and the Greeks', Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical NATURE'S GOD: EMERSON AND THE GREEKS The parallels and differences between Emerson's mystical idea of Nature and the greatness of their power as a function of their mystic ability, so well assayed by Emerson, to bear KEYWORDS Deism * Emerson * Jefferson * Lincoln * Bob Dylan * mystic * America * Plato * Pre-Socratic * Stoic * William James * Kenneth Burke * slavery * Christianity * liberty Rather the Distant God is a cosmic force that sets the laws of nature in motion and And, like the Stoics, Emerson invites us to obey Nature. Its God (the soul, breath and spirit of the world) is good. Thus evils exist, but they are governed by the remedial nature of the universe. But Emerson's 'law of nature' is none of these things. American Nature, in contrast is without limit.	./cache/work_gab64pkn4val7juljk3pw5xha4.pdf	./txt/work_gab64pkn4val7juljk3pw5xha4.txt