Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them.. Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient. . Allan Bloom
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The quote "Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them..." by Emily Dickinson shows that humans often misinterpret their natural environment and try to control the world around them. Instead of allowing nature to be and do what it was meant to do, we humans interfere with its function and we try to take control over everything we see.

Source: The Closing Of The American Mind

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