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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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No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing ...
No anchor , no cable , no fences , avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing ...
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Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an ...
Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature ; that is all . We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an ...
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... with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust “ justice ” of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers ...
... with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust “ justice ” of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers ...
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Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and , unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the ...
Already that day exists for us , shines in on us at unawares , but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child , and , unschooled farmer's boy , stand nearer to the ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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