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He showed that the world is as it actually appears to our consciousness , by reason of “ the work of the mind ” ( endowed with certain faculties ) upon the data or raw material supplied by the senses . According to this view , man - or ...
He showed that the world is as it actually appears to our consciousness , by reason of “ the work of the mind ” ( endowed with certain faculties ) upon the data or raw material supplied by the senses . According to this view , man - or ...
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Beside all the small reasons we assign , there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact ; a reason which lies grand and immovable , often unsuspected , behind it in silence . The Times are the masquerade of the ...
Beside all the small reasons we assign , there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact ; a reason which lies grand and immovable , often unsuspected , behind it in silence . The Times are the masquerade of the ...
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I wish to consider well this affirmative side , which has a loftier port and reason than heretofore , which encroaches on the other every day , puts it out of countenance , out of reason , and out of temper , and leaves it nothing but ...
I wish to consider well this affirmative side , which has a loftier port and reason than heretofore , which encroaches on the other every day , puts it out of countenance , out of reason , and out of temper , and leaves it nothing but ...
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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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