Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... universal mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by ...
... universal mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by ...
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... universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . Every step in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national ...
... universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation . All its properties consist in him . Every step in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national ...
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... universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as contain- ing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws de- rive hence their ultimate reason , all express ...
... universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as contain- ing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws de- rive hence their ultimate reason , all express ...
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... Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will , or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude ...
... Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will , or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude ...
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... universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his His private ...
... universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his His private ...
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