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HISTORY THEN a HERE is one mind common to all individual men . Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate .
HISTORY THEN a HERE is one mind common to all individual men . Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate .
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Every new mind is a new classification . If it prove a mind of uncommon activity and power , a Locke , a Lavoisier , a Hutton , a Bentham , a Fourier , it imposes its classification on other men , and lo ! a new system .
Every new mind is a new classification . If it prove a mind of uncommon activity and power , a Locke , a Lavoisier , a Hutton , a Bentham , a Fourier , it imposes its classification on other men , and lo ! a new system .
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He says it cannot be called a faculty , and much less a personal property of the human mind . We do not possess it , but partake of it . It is identical with the Universal Reason , a spark from which enters the human mind .
He says it cannot be called a faculty , and much less a personal property of the human mind . We do not possess it , but partake of it . It is identical with the Universal Reason , a spark from which enters the human mind .
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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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