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But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to ESSAY II.
But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to ESSAY II.
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stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie ...
stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie ...
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Stand before each of its tablets and say , “ Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats ...
Stand before each of its tablets and say , “ Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats ...
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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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Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all - creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ?
Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all - creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , why should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we make account of time , or of magnitude , or of figure ?
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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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