infinite space-all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. Questions:
1. Which work is the passage quoted from? --- Nature 2. Who is the author of the work? --- Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in these words? --- Ralph Waldo Emerson regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. In this connection, Emerson's emotional experiences are exemplary in more ways than one. Now this is a moment of \when one feels completely merged with the outside world, when one has completely sunk into nature and become one with it, and when the soul has gone beyond the physical limits of the body to share the omniscience of the Oversoul. In a word, the soul has completely transcended the limits of individuality and become part of the Oversoul. Emerson sees spirit pervading everywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, throughout nature.
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There were careless people, Tom and Daisy ——
They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. Questions:
1. Which novel is this passage taken from? ---The Great Gatsby 2. Who is the writer of this novel? ---F· Scott Fitzgerald
3. What is the author’s attitude toward such persons as Tom and Daisy?---The author criticized them as selfish, hypocritical person.
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To go into solitude, a man needs to re