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No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things . It makes no difference how many tons weight of atmosphere presses on our heads , so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs .
No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things . It makes no difference how many tons weight of atmosphere presses on our heads , so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs .
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faithful to facts , had also this crowning merit ; that , whilst he believed in number and weight , and omitted no part of prudence , he believed also in the freedom and quite incalcul . able force of the soul .
faithful to facts , had also this crowning merit ; that , whilst he believed in number and weight , and omitted no part of prudence , he believed also in the freedom and quite incalcul . able force of the soul .
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Forget this , and our American colleges will recede in their public importance , whilst they grow richer every year , III . There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse , a valetudinarian , -as unfit for any ...
Forget this , and our American colleges will recede in their public importance , whilst they grow richer every year , III . There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse , a valetudinarian , -as unfit for any ...
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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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