Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xxvi
... of men of our own time ; the actuating motive to reform is hardly the same . It was not with him , as it is with us to - day , the terrible spectacle of the misery and want of thousands of our fellows . The hells of huge towns were not ...
... of men of our own time ; the actuating motive to reform is hardly the same . It was not with him , as it is with us to - day , the terrible spectacle of the misery and want of thousands of our fellows . The hells of huge towns were not ...
Page 112
... of man in time , a putting off of dead circumstances day by day , as he renews his raiment day by day . But to us , in our lapsed estate , resting , not advancing , resisting , not co - operating with the divine expansion , this growth ...
... of man in time , a putting off of dead circumstances day by day , as he renews his raiment day by day . But to us , in our lapsed estate , resting , not advancing , resisting , not co - operating with the divine expansion , this growth ...
Page 249
... of religion and intellect , and stand in the light of Ideas , whose rays stream through us to those younger and more in the dark . What further relations we sustain , what new lodges we are entering , is now unknown . To - day is a king in ...
... of religion and intellect , and stand in the light of Ideas , whose rays stream through us to those younger and more in the dark . What further relations we sustain , what new lodges we are entering , is now unknown . To - day is a king in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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