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He owes his fame to one keen observation , that no copula had been detected between any cause and effect , either in physics or in thought : that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as ...
He owes his fame to one keen observation , that no copula had been detected between any cause and effect , either in physics or in thought : that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as ...
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Nature looks provokingly stable and secular , but it has a cause like all the rest ; and when once I comprehend that , will these fields stretch so immovably wide , these leaves hang so individually considerable ?
Nature looks provokingly stable and secular , but it has a cause like all the rest ; and when once I comprehend that , will these fields stretch so immovably wide , these leaves hang so individually considerable ?
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If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , “ Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest : have that ...
If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , “ Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest : have that ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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| Title | Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson The Camelot series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | W. Scott, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2005 |
| Length | 351 pages |
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