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Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days .
Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days .
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... of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained by the hours . Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation .
... of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained by the hours . Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation .
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It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ...
It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ...
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Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius --- anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude ...
Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius --- anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude ...
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He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully ...
He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully ...
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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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