The religion of both was originally a worship of outward nature, especially the manifestations of fire and light; the coincidences being too marked to be merely accidental.
And the Theism of Anaxagoras was still more decidedly subversive, not only of Mythology, but of the whole religion of outward nature; it being an appeal from the world without, to the consciousness of spiritual dignity within man.
Theism of Anaxagoras subversive of the religion of outward nature, 679-u.
The man who can rise no higher than law or succession as he sees it impressed on outward nature, stands in a totally different position from the man whose insight into Reason and Will has shown him the idea of true Causation.
If a brute could idealize the laws of outward nature,--or the laws connecting his own powers with their proper functions, he might see them as a Man does, and give them a fresh existence within his own intelligence.
It cared little for the country or outward nature, and nothing for the life of remote times and places.
It was the same with the poetry of outward nature as with the poetry of human passion.
It is to awaken the free, earnest exertion of our powers, to rouse us from passiveness to activity and life, that inward inspirations, and the teachings of outward nature, are accorded to the mind.
Even the warmest admirers of Virgil about that time, such as Keble, are content to claim for him high excellence as the poet of outward nature.
The art of Homer and that of Theocritus are felt to be an immediate reproduction from human life and outward nature; the art of Virgil seems, at first sight, to be only a reproduction from this older and truer copy.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outward nature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
