| Abstract | 第1-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·A Brief Overview of Nature and its Structure | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Necessity of Re-examining Nature | 第13-15页 |
| ·Emerson's Definition and Recognition of Nature | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter One The Commodity Provided by Nature | 第17-21页 |
| ·The Concept of Commodity | 第17页 |
| ·The Categories of Commodity | 第17-21页 |
| ·The Vast Environment | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Raw Materials and Energy | 第18页 |
| ·The Process and Result of the Work of all Parts | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Two A Nobler Want — the Aesthetic Function of Nature | 第21-27页 |
| ·The Concept of Beauty | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Classifications of Beauty of Nature | 第22-27页 |
| ·The Sensual Beauty — its Medicinal Qualities | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Moral Beauty — its Spiritual Elements | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Intellectual Beauty — its Intellectual Properties | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three Language as the Affordance of Nature | 第27-36页 |
| ·Words and Natural Facts | 第27-28页 |
| ·Particular Natural Facts and Particular Spiritual Facts | 第28-32页 |
| ·The Spiritual Facts | 第28-29页 |
| ·Man as the Analogist of Natural Materials | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Imagery-Language-Imagery Circle | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Eternal Presence of Universal Soul | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Corruption of Man and that of Language | 第32页 |
| ·Nature and Spirit | 第32-36页 |
| ·The Accessibility of Spiritual Analogy in Nature | 第32-33页 |
| ·Nature as the Mirror of Spirit | 第33-34页 |
| ·Studying Nature and Knowing Thyself | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Four Nature as a Discipline on Human Beings | 第36-45页 |
| ·Nature's Discipline on Man's Understanding | 第36-39页 |
| ·Natural Things as Our Understanding of Nature | 第36-37页 |
| ·Understanding of Difference | 第37-38页 |
| ·Nature's Exercise on Man's Will | 第38-39页 |
| ·Nature as a Discipline on Reason | 第39-42页 |
| ·Nature's Spiritual Discipline | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Unity in Variety | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Way of Studying Nature | 第42-45页 |
| Conclusion | 第45-49页 |
| Notes | 第49-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-56页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第56-57页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第57页 |
