Emerson’s “Nature” and My View on the Transparent Eyeball

Within Chapter one “Nature” of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature, Emerson’s friend Christopher Cranch draws a caricature of him as a “transparent eyeball.”  As far as the entire passage goes I believe that Emerson is discussing how clueless mankind is about Nature.  He states early in the Chapter the following, “But none of them owns the landscape.  There is property …

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