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What attitude toward the stars does Emerson express in the first paragraph of Chapter I of Nature?
He feels that they should only appear occasionally.
He feels that they are impossible to understand.
He feels that looking at them makes one mournful.
He feels they represent awe-inspiring beauty.

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He feels they represent awe-inspiring beauty. Emerson writes, "The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible..." — expressing awe and reverence, not sorrow or impossibility.