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He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , ; he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , ; he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand .
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... and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All ; laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express HISTORY 5.
... and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All ; laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express HISTORY 5.
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Coleridge calls this transcendent faculty Reason , and regarded it as the immediate beholding of supersensual things . He says it cannot be called a faculty , and much less a personal property of the human mind .
Coleridge calls this transcendent faculty Reason , and regarded it as the immediate beholding of supersensual things . He says it cannot be called a faculty , and much less a personal property of 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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