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As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains ...
As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains ...
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compliance to the customs of society , to its dress , its breeding and its estimates . But later , if we are so happy , we learn that only that soul can be my friend , which I encounter on the line of my own march , that soul to which I ...
compliance to the customs of society , to its dress , its breeding and its estimates . But later , if we are so happy , we learn that only that soul can be my friend , which I encounter on the line of my own march , that soul to which I ...
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He does not longer appertain to his family and society . He is somewhat . He is a person . He is a soul . And here let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence which is thus potent over the human youth .
He does not longer appertain to his family and society . He is somewhat . He is a person . He is a soul . And here let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence which is thus potent over the human youth .
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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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