text: At thirty, this thinker had an epiphany about the natural world while visiting the classified cabinets of Paris’s Jardin des Plantes.
full_question: At thirty, this thinker had an epiphany about the natural world while visiting the classified cabinets of Paris’s Jardin des Plantes. The importance of this thinker’s aunt Mary Moody to his ideas is traced in a Robert Richardson’s biography subtitled “the mind on fire.” He described Emanuel Swedenborg as “the Mystic” in his book Representative Men. An oft-quoted passage from an essay by this man states “I am part or particle of God" and "I become a transparent eyeball." For 10 points, name this American philosopher who wrote the essays “Nature” and “Self-Reliance.”
first_sentence: At thirty, this thinker had an epiphany about the natural world while visiting the classified cabinets of Paris’s Jardin des Plantes.