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These varieties are lost sight of when seen at a little distance , at a little height of thought . One tendency unites them all . The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks . This is only microscopic criticism .
These varieties are lost sight of when seen at a little distance , at a little height of thought . One tendency unites them all . The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks . This is only microscopic criticism .
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But compare the health of the two Self - men , and you shall see that his Reliance aboriginal strength the white man has lost . If the traveler tell us truly , strike the savage with a broad axe , and in a day or two the flesh shall ...
But compare the health of the two Self - men , and you shall see that his Reliance aboriginal strength the white man has lost . If the traveler tell us truly , strike the savage with a broad axe , and in a day or two the flesh shall ...
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... whether we have not lost by refinement some energy , by a christianity entrenched in establishments and forms , some vigor of wild virtue . For every stoic was a a stoic ; but in Christendom where is the Christian ?
... whether we have not lost by refinement some energy , by a christianity entrenched in establishments and forms , some vigor of wild virtue . For every stoic was a a stoic ; but in Christendom where is the Christian ?
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| Title | The Essay on Self-reliance |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | The Roycrofters, 1908 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 8 Dec 2015 |
| Length | 82 pages |
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