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Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which ...
Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance ; others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which ...
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Cause and effect , means and ends , seed and fruit , cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause , the end pre - exists in the means , the fruit in the seed . Whilst thus the world will be whole , and man refuses to ...
Cause and effect , means and ends , seed and fruit , cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause , the end pre - exists in the means , the fruit in the seed . Whilst thus the world will be whole , and man refuses to ...
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Better than the hand , and nimbler , was the invisible thought which wrought through it , and thus ever behind the coarse effect , is a fine cause , which , being narrowly seen , is itself the effect of a finer cause .
Better than the hand , and nimbler , was the invisible thought which wrought through it , and thus ever behind the coarse effect , is a fine cause , which , being narrowly seen , is itself the effect of a finer cause .
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Complete works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1923 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 332 pages |
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