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Page 12
Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all ...
Nature is a mutable cloud , which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all ...
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He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the ...
He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition . A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation . How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the ...
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I hold our actual knowledge very cheap . Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ?
I hold our actual knowledge very cheap . Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ?
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There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science ...
There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk men are now than ever were . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science ...
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All things are moral . That soul , which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law . We feel its inspiration ; out there in history we can see its fatal strength . “ It is in the world , and the world was made by it .
All things are moral . That soul , which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law . We feel its inspiration ; out there in history we can see its fatal strength . “ It is in the world , and the world was made by it .
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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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