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The ingenuity of man has been dedicated always to the solution of one problem , -how to detach the sensual sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright , etc. , from the moral sweet , the moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again ...
The ingenuity of man has been dedicated always to the solution of one problem , -how to detach the sensual sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright , etc. , from the moral sweet , the moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again ...
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A plain confession of the in - working of the All , and of its moral aim . The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics ; and indeed it would seemn impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral .
A plain confession of the in - working of the All , and of its moral aim . The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics ; and indeed it would seemn impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral .
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One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace ; that every action admits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth ...
One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace ; that every action admits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth ...
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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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