The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than ...
... mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than ...
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... mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual expe- rience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and ...
... mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual expe- rience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and ...
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... mind . We do not possess it , but partake of it . It is identical with the Uni- versal Reason , a spark from which enters the human mind . He says there is but one reason , which all intelligent beings share in , and it is identical in ...
... mind . We do not possess it , but partake of it . It is identical with the Uni- versal Reason , a spark from which enters the human mind . He says there is but one reason , which all intelligent beings share in , and it is identical in ...
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