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a a There is one mind common 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 . What Plato has thought , he may think ...
a a There is one mind common 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 . What Plato has thought , he may think ...
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If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of ...
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Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpillar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant individual ; through countless individuals , the fixed species ; through many species , the genus ; through all genera ...
Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpillar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant individual ; through countless individuals , the fixed species ; through many species , the genus ; through all genera ...
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Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us , nothing that does not interest us , – kingdom , college , tree ...
Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us , nothing that does not interest us , – kingdom , college , tree ...
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And in these late and civil countries of England and America , these propensities still fight out the old battle in the nation and in the individual . The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander by the attacks of the gadfly , which ...
And in these late and civil countries of England and America , these propensities still fight out the old battle in the nation and in the individual . The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander by the attacks of the gadfly , which ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2019 |
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