tailieunhanh - The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

Nature in her ever-constant, ever-changing phases is indispensable to man, his whole existence depends upon her, and she influences him in manifold ways, in mind as well as body. The physical character of a country is reflected in its inhabitants; the one factor of climate alone gives a very different outlook to northerner and southerner. But whereas primitive man, to whom the darkness of night meant anxiety, either feared Nature or worshipped her with awe, civilised man tries to lift her veil, and through science and art to understand her inner and outer beauty--the scientist in her laws, the man of religion in her relation to. | The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times 1 The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times The Project Gutenberg eBook The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Author Alfred Biese Release Date October 20 2004 eBook 13814 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEELING FOR NATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND MODERN TIMES E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram Leonard Johnson and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEELING FOR NATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND MODERN TIMES by ALFRED BIESE Director of the K. K. Gymnasium at Neuwied Authorized translation from the German 1905 AUTHOR S PREFACE The encouraging reception of my Development of the Feeling for Nature among the Greeks and Romans gradually decided me after some years to carry the subject on to modern tunes. Enticing as it was I did not shut my eyes to the great difficulties of a task whose dimensions have daunted many a savant since the days of Humboldt s clever terse sketches of the feeling for Nature in different times and peoples. But the subject once approached would not let me go. Its solution seemed only possible from the side of historical development not from that of a priori synthesis. The almost inexhaustible amount of material especially towards modern times has often obliged me to limit myself to typical forerunners of the various epochs although at the same time I have tried not to lose the thread of general development. By the addition of the The .