Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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Page 7
... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as ...
... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as ...
Page 8
... spirit to the mani- fold world . This human mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
... spirit to the mani- fold world . This human mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
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... spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , but , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are ...
... spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form before it , but , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are ...
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... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By descend- ing far down into the depths of the soul , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many man- ual skills , the artist attains the power of awak- ening other souls to a given ...
... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By descend- ing far down into the depths of the soul , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many man- ual skills , the artist attains the power of awak- ening other souls to a given ...
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... institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at inter- vals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have always , from time to time , walked among men and made their commis- sion HISTORY . 27.
... institutions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at inter- vals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I see that men of God have always , from time to time , walked among men and made their commis- sion HISTORY . 27.
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