Nature and Cause
This vowel shift is well attested in Hebrew and other Canaanite languages, but its exact nature is unclear and contested.
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Famous quotes containing the words nature and and/or nature:
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of his enthusiasm, and there are now men,—if indeed I can speak in the plural number,—more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible, that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest of sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)