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to let the soul have its way through us ; in other words , to engage us to obey . of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible . Language cannot paint it with its colours . It is too subtle . It is undefinable , unmeasurable ...
to let the soul have its way through us ; in other words , to engage us to obey . of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible . Language cannot paint it with its colours . It is too subtle . It is undefinable , unmeasurable ...
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And so , always , the soul's scale is one ; the scale of the senses and the understanding is another . Before the revelations of the soul , Time , Space , and Nature shrink away . In common speech , we refer all things to time , as we ...
And so , always , the soul's scale is one ; the scale of the senses and the understanding is another . Before the revelations of the soul , Time , Space , and Nature shrink away . In common speech , we refer all things to time , as we ...
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The soul answers never by words , but by the thing itself that is inquired after . Revelation is the disclosure of the soul . The popular notion of a revelation is that it is a telling of fortunes . oracles of the soul the understanding ...
The soul answers never by words , but by the thing itself that is inquired after . Revelation is the disclosure of the soul . The popular notion of a revelation is that it is a telling of fortunes . oracles of the soul the understanding ...
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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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