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“ What Plato has thought we may think , what a saint has felt we may feel ; ” because Plato and the saint were instruments of the same divine mind to which we also have access . And this explains his doctrine of Representative Men .
“ What Plato has thought we may think , what a saint has felt we may feel ; ” because Plato and the saint were instruments of the same divine mind to which we also have access . And this explains his doctrine of Representative Men .
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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure , that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate , not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ...
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure , that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate , not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ...
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The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten , a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution . Once man was all ; now he is an appendage , a nuisance . And because the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of ...
The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten , a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution . Once man was all ; now he is an appendage , a nuisance . And because the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of ...
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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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