Meaning of “The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed…”

Nature (first published 1836), Chapter VIII, “Prospects,” in James Munroe and Company’s 1849 new-edition witness represented by Project Gutenberg #29433. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common” appears near the essay’s close during Emerson’s discussion of prayer, study, facts and ideas. This collection retains 1836 as first-publication year while the evidence layer identifies the reviewed 1849 witness; the sentence remains Transcendentalist philosophical rhetoric rather than an experimentally established measure of wisdom.

Travels in Alaska, same Stickeen excursion; the sentence follows Muir’s description of the world seeming newly born.

The Tables Turned; the line follows Wordsworth’s claim that a vernal wood can teach moral insight.

Walden, chapter “The Pond in Winter”; the line joins the immediate natural world with spiritual wonder.

My First Summer in the Sierra, near the close of the summer journal.

Travels in Alaska, mountain excursion near the Stickeen; Muir describes the effect of evening light after a strenuous day.