I'm sure that Emerson was as capable of thinking, speaking, and writing bullshit as any of us, but I'm not sure that “Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind” can be accounted such. It's a fairly time-honored view (see Pico della Mirandola's oration on the dignity of man). Man as microcosm may be hard for contemporary man to grasp, but earlier generations didn't have that problem.
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