Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... 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 laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
... 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 laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
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... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every re- form was once a private opinion , and when it shall be private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age ...
... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every re- form was once a private opinion , and when it shall be private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age ...
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... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . We A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done ...
... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . We A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done ...
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... thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius ...
... thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius ...
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... thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things to its own end . The adamant streams ...
... thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things to its own end . The adamant streams ...
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