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Every chemical substance, every plant, every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance. Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all- creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we ...
Every chemical substance, every plant, every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance. Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all- creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we ...
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Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes ...
Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes ...
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Every chemical substance , every plant , every animal in its growth , teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appearance . Upborne and surrounded as we are by this allcreating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air ...
Every chemical substance , every plant , every animal in its growth , teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appearance . Upborne and surrounded as we are by this allcreating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air ...
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There is , at the surface , infinite variety of things ; at the centre there is simplicity of cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the ...
There is , at the surface , infinite variety of things ; at the centre there is simplicity of cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the ...
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Self -existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting ...
Self -existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. Commerce, husbandry, hunting ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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