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Page 103
Cause and effect , means and ends , seed and fruit , cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause , the end preëxists in the means , the fruit in the seed . ' Whilst thus the world will be whole and refuses to be ...
Cause and effect , means and ends , seed and fruit , cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause , the end preëxists in the means , the fruit in the seed . ' Whilst thus the world will be whole and refuses to be ...
Page 267
We grant that human life is mean , but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours ; of this old discontent ? What is the universal sense of want and ignorance , but the fine innuendo by which ...
We grant that human life is mean , but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours ; of this old discontent ? What is the universal sense of want and ignorance , but the fine innuendo by which ...
Page 278
I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors , that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by - play , and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.3 Men descend to meet . In their habitual and mean ...
I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors , that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by - play , and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.3 Men descend to meet . In their habitual and mean ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series Volume 2 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Contributor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Aug 2010 |
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