Cognition of the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm.
The infinitely complex intricacy of Weismann's minute microcosm within the germ-cell, indeed within every id in it, is justly described as a mere duplication, a repetition in the infinitely little of the essential difficulties to be explained.
It's only the aggregate of the human souls that make it, but each soul could be the microcosm of the universe.
This threw all the venerable gods and goddesses into a fit of laughter, like any microcosm of flies; and even set limping Vulcan a-hopping and jumping smoothly three or four times for the sake of his dear.
Now let our microcosm be fancied conform to this model in all its members; lending, borrowing, and owing, that is to say, according to its own nature.
Life consisteth in blood, blood is the seat of the soul; therefore the chiefest work of the microcosm is, to be making blood continually.
It is, as he admits, an audacious proposal to pit the microcosm against the macrocosm.
We cannot help fearing that the microcosm may get the worst of it.
Beyond us, around us, human nature is at an end, and we are the only population of this microcosm until we become pure Selenites.
In this microcosm he represented French loquacity and excitability, and we beg you to believe that they were well represented.
Notice that the belief is more or less assured, according as the case may be, but that it is forced upon the mind as an absolute necessity when the microcosm considered contains only magnitudes.
He did as much for the microcosm man as Copernicus for the cosmos or Columbus for our earth.
The tempest in the third canto is in verse a splendid microcosm of the favourites, if not the prevailing mood, of the writer's mind.
The village seemed too cosy a microcosm to be disturbed.
To venture into hismicrocosm is to bid farewell to all that is simple and kindly; it is, however, to discover the terrible beauty that lurks behind corruption, malevolent though delirious.
The microcosm is viewed only in relation to human action, nature is presented to the emotions as the guide and teacher of humanity.
And the microcosmis viewed only as tending to complete correspondence with the external; human conduct is subject for reverence only in so far as it is consonant to the demiurgic law, in harmony with the teaching of divine Nature.
It is likewise the impure firmament of the microcosm that diseases the body and soul.
If he is cunning he draws on the fox of the microcosm and becomes, in action and thought, like that animal.
If selfishness survives, the hog principle is aroused from its latent cells in the microcosm and he is dominated by material appetites.
Footnote 4} Man has an internal and an external; hid internal is formed by creation after the image of heaven, and his external after the image of the world; and for this reason man was called by the ancients a microcosm (n.
In man the internal man was formed after the image of heaven, and the external after the image of the world, and this is why man was called by the ancients a microcosm (n.
The result of this elaborate care may perhaps best be seen in The Microcosm of London, The Dance of Death, and the charming edition of The Vicar of Wakefield, published in 1817.
And all the imagining of man passes from the small sun of the microcosm into the sun of the great Universe, into the heart of the macrocosm.
Thus the imaginatio of the microcosm is a seed which becomes material," &c.
One of its bases is the assumption that man and the universe correspond as microcosm and macrocosm and that both are subject to the mysterious power of words and letters.
Sir Lionel has remarked that Bath is a "microcosm of England," and I hastened to say "Yes, it is.
Whatever moulds of various brain E'er shaped the world to weal or woe, Whatever empires' wax and wane To him that hath not eyes in vain, Our village-microcosm can show.
The body is themicrocosm of the cosmos [Sanskrit: shuddhabrahmananda]).
View in yourself the soul of all beings and those beings themselves; think your own self or soul as the microcosm of the great universe, and be tolerant and broad sighted in your practice of Yoga.
It may be a very simple unity, this microcosm of art, like a cell compounded from protoplasm, yet it will give us its corresponding pleasure, so long as it is made with the sincerity of the imagination.
The whole was a brilliant analysis of England in macrocosm and microcosm welded into the life-story of Remington.
The old notion that man is a microcosm or parallel of the universe on a small scale, was familiar to Isidore.
Both in the world at large and in the microcosm of man the harmony of “musical numbers” is an essential;[96] and number is also an essential factor in every part and aspect of the universe.
Notably her elaborate doctrine of the macrocosm andmicrocosm must have involved extensive reading.
Nous pervaded by the Godhead embracing the Macrocosm with the Microcosm (Lucca MS.
Furthermore, her conceptions have developed so as to fit in with the macrocosm-microcosm scheme which she grasped about the year 1158.
In his writings the doctrine of the relation of macrocosm and microcosm is more veiled than with Bernard Sylvestris.
We may also recall that at Hildegard’s date very complex cabalistic systems involving the doctrine of macrocosm and microcosm were being elaborated by the Jews, and that she lived in a district where Rabbinic mysticism specially flourished.
The various characters of the winds are expounded in a set of curious passages in which the doctrine of the macrocosm and microcosm is further mystically elaborated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "microcosm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: baby; doll; miniature; puppet; universe
