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Page xxvii
“ All particular reforms are the removing of some impediment ' -that is , some impediment to the free activity of the spirit , and the realisation of the ideal life . Man is everywhere thwarted by these impediments .
“ All particular reforms are the removing of some impediment ' -that is , some impediment to the free activity of the spirit , and the realisation of the ideal life . Man is everywhere thwarted by these impediments .
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There is a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape ; -lawreform , army - reform , extension of suffrage , Jewish franchise , Catholic emancipation - the abolition of slavery , of impressment , penal code , and entails .
There is a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape ; -lawreform , army - reform , extension of suffrage , Jewish franchise , Catholic emancipation - the abolition of slavery , of impressment , penal code , and entails .
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These reforms are our contemporaries ; they are ourselves ; our own light , and sight , and conscience ; they only name the relation ... I think that the soul of reform ; the conviction , that not sensualism , . not slavery , not war ...
These reforms are our contemporaries ; they are ourselves ; our own light , and sight , and conscience ; they only name the relation ... I think that the soul of reform ; the conviction , that not sensualism , . not slavery , not war ...
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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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