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Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events .
Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events .
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All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable essence . · Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold ...
All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme , illimitable essence . · Property also holds of the soul , covers great spiritual facts , and instinctively we at first hold ...
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The antagonism of the two tendencies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in ...
The antagonism of the two tendencies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in ...
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Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not .
Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not .
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His power But along with the civil and metaphysical history of man , another history goes daily forward , — that of the external world , — in which he is not less strictly implicated . He is the compend of time ; he is also the ...
His power But along with the civil and metaphysical history of man , another history goes daily forward , — that of the external world , — in which he is not less strictly implicated . He is the compend of time ; he is also the ...
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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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