Papers. That is because a title announces what is at stake for a lease hopefully announces what is at stake. I hope as nature as a saint, is that kind of title. You may think because the lecture is about melville, that it is a melville quote, but it is a walt emerson quote. Someone who was addressing some of the same kind of questions and concerns that melville was. Though nature as we know it is drawn rum Ralph Waldo Emersons essay called experience in 1884. He is trying to say what would our lives we like. How would we make sense of ourselves. How would we make sense of our world world. That is to say, we did not have our inherited elysian telling us how to make sense of our religion. We didnt have europe saying to the new world here is how to make sense of yourself and your new world. What would it be like if we took our experience as, in fact, the indication of what and right of what right and wrong is. And then he goes on to show us why that is so hard to do. Yes, experience is a
Is at stake. Saint, isnature as a that kind of title. You may think because the lecture is about melville, that it is a melville quote, but it walt emerson quote. Someone who was addressing some of the same kind of questions and concerns that melville was. Though nature as we know it is drawn rum Ralph Waldo Emersons experience in 1884. He is trying to say what would our lives we like. How would we make sense of ourselves. How would we make sense of our world world. Say, we did not have our inherited elysian telling us how to make sense of our religion. We didnt have europe saying to the new world here is how to make sense of yourself and your new world. What would it be like if we took our experience as, in fact, the indication of what and right of what right and wrong is. And then he goes on to show us why that is so hard to do. Yes, experience is a thorny thing. He wrestles with it in the piece. What i love about this piece is why y the title, which ill explain in a little bit, but