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This fact , as far as it symbolises the moral fact of the Unattainable , the flying Perfect , around which the hands of man can never meet , at once the inspirer and the condemner of every success , may conveniently serve us to connect ...
This fact , as far as it symbolises the moral fact of the Unattainable , the flying Perfect , around which the hands of man can never meet , at once the inspirer and the condemner of every success , may conveniently serve us to connect ...
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Though you add millions , and never so surprising , the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight . The spiritual fact remains unalterable , by many or by few particulars ; as no mountain is of any appreciable height to break ...
Though you add millions , and never so surprising , the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight . The spiritual fact remains unalterable , by many or by few particulars ; as no mountain is of any appreciable height to break ...
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But I , he says , affirm facts not affected by the allusions of sense , facts which are of the same nature as the faculty which reports them ... He does not deny the sensuous fact : by no means ; but he will not see that alone .
But I , he says , affirm facts not affected by the allusions of sense , facts which are of the same nature as the faculty which reports them ... He does not deny the sensuous fact : by no means ; but he will not see that alone .
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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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