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Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY.
Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY.
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Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the ...
Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the ...
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Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the ...
Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the ...
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Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle ...
Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle ...
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Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle ...
Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle ...
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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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