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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生:随笔·摘录 29

拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生《随笔》· Essays · 健康 · 哲学 · 成长 · 行动

Every act rewards itself, or, in other words, integrates itself, in a twofold manner; first, in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly, in the circumstance, or in apparent nature. Men call the circumstance the retribution. The causal retribution is in the thing, and is seen by the soul. The retribution in the circumstance is seen by the understanding; it is inseparable from the thing, but is often spread over a long time, and so does not become distinct until after many years. The specific stripes may follow late after the offense, but they follow because they accompany it. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preëxists in the means, the fruit in the seed.

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定位:Excerpt 29 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

每个行为都自我报偿,或者说自我整合,方式有两重:一在事情本身,即真实自然里;二在境遇中,即表面自然里。人们把境遇叫作报应。但因果的报应就在事情内部,灵魂看得见;境遇的报应,理解力看得见,它和事情不可分,只是常拖很久,多年后才显明。具体的鞭子可能来得晚,但它来是因为它一直跟着。罪与罚长在同一根茎上。罚是果,在藏起它的快乐之花里悄悄成熟。因与果、手段与目的、种子与果实,不能割开;因为果已在因里开花,目的已先在手段里,果实已在种子里。

上下文

爱默生《随笔集》中论“补偿”的篇章,讨论因果报应如何内在于行为本身。

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你正在做的某件事,其后果是否已在过程中悄悄成熟?

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