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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生:随笔·摘录 19

拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生《随笔》· Essays · 健康 · 哲学 · 投资 · 财富

There is one man of genius who has done much for this philosophy of life, whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated:--I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.[91] The most imaginative of men, yet writing with the precision of a mathematician, he endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time. Such an attempt of course must have difficulty which no genius could surmount. But he saw and showed the connexion between nature and the affections of the soul. He pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world. Especially did his shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature; he showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms, and has given in epical parables a theory of insanity, of beasts, of unclean and fearful things.

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定位:Excerpt 19 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

爱默生认为,有一位天才为这种生活哲学贡献很大,文学价值却一直被低估,那就是斯威登堡。他极富想象力,写起来却像数学家一样精确,试图把纯哲学的伦理嫁接到当时流行的基督教上。这种尝试当然困难重重,再大的天才也难完全成功。但他看到并展示了自然与灵魂情感之间的联系,穿透了可见、可听、可触世界的象征性或精神性。他的缪斯尤其偏爱自然的低处,解释了下层自然,揭示道德恶与污秽物质形式之间的神秘纽带,用史诗般的寓言讲出疯狂、野兽、不洁可怖之物的理论。

上下文

爱默生《随笔集》中评述瑞典科学家、神秘主义者斯威登堡,肯定其象征自然观。

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今日一问

你有没有从一件具体事物中看出某种精神象征?它让你对什么有了新理解?

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