Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xxix
... universal ends ; they will bring good to others , and that peace and joy to ourselves which is the recompense of the moral life . That good for me , in this sense of satisfying the deity within , must mean good for others , is obvious ...
... universal ends ; they will bring good to others , and that peace and joy to ourselves which is the recompense of the moral life . That good for me , in this sense of satisfying the deity within , must mean good for others , is obvious ...
Page 72
... universal sense of want and ignorance but the fine inuendo by which the soul makes its enormous claim ? The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul . In its experiments there has always ...
... universal sense of want and ignorance but the fine inuendo by which the soul makes its enormous claim ? The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul . In its experiments there has always ...
Page 308
... universal spirit freely flows ; so that his fund of justice is not only vast , but infinite . All men , in the ... universal being . The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature ; he has only to open his mouth ...
... universal spirit freely flows ; so that his fund of justice is not only vast , but infinite . All men , in the ... universal being . The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature ; he has only to open his mouth ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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