 All successful men have agreed in one thing, — they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... - Page 48by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...geology and astronomy. ^ All successful men have agreed in one thing, — they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by...belief in ^causality, or strict connection between svery trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 270 pages
...all this geology and astronomy. All successful men have agreed in one thing, they were causationisls. They believed that things went not by luck, but by...pulse-beat and the principle of being, — and, in cons^quence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing, — characterizes all valuable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 120 pages
...geology and astronomy. All successful men have agreed in one thing, __— they were eausationists. They believed that things went, not by luck, but by...belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1861 - 320 pages
...this geology and astronomy. All successful men have agreed in one thino-, they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by...belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...this geology and astronomy. All successful men have agreed in one thing, — they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law ; that there was not a weak or a cracked linV in the chain that joins the first and last of things. A belief in causality, or strict connexion... | |
 | Unity, Mary Ann Kelty - 1867 - 150 pages
...within my heart." — Psalm xl. 5. A belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief...got for nothing, characterizes all valuable minds. — EMERSON.* 7" Unite my heart to fear thy name." — Psalm lxxx. u. The one prudence in life is concentration... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 334 pages
...this geology and astronomy. All successful men have agreed in one thing, f— they were camationists. They believed ; that things went, not by luck, but...belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 508 pages
...this geology and astronomy. All successful men have agreed in one thing, — they were cautationMts. They believed that things went not by luck, but by...for nothing, — characterizes all valuable minds, aud must control every effort that is made by an industrious one. The most valiant men are the best... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1880 - 402 pages
...successful men," says Ralph Waldo Emerson, " have agreed in one thing — they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by...the chain that joins the first and last of things." We have seen the boy who planed boards, who chopped wood, who drove mules on the tow-path, who made... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 pages
...believe in " cause and effect." All successful men have agreed in one thing, — they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by...the chain that joins the first and last of things. " Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying... | |
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