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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's , strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . a a There is one mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's , strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . a a There is one mind.
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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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This human 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 experience . There is a relation between the hours of our ...
This human 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 experience . There is a relation between the hours of our ...
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What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of its tablets and say , “ Under ...
What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of its tablets and say , “ Under ...
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The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep ...
The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep ...
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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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