Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 7
... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emo- tion 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 ...
... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emo- tion 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 ...
Page 8
... spirit to the manifold 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 manifold 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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... forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and tough- ness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it converts all things to its own end . The adamant streams History . 15.
... forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and tough- ness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it converts all things to its own end . The adamant streams History . 15.
Page 18
... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By descending far down into the depths of the soul , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given ...
... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By descending far down into the depths of the soul , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given ...
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... 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 com- mission felt in the heart and soul of the common- est hearer . Hence ...
... 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 com- mission felt in the heart and soul of the common- est hearer . Hence ...
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