The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xxxviii
... reforms of the day were honored and helped by Emerson , but he would not " mistake others ' chivalries for his own . " He said : " My reforms include theirs " ; and again , " I have quite other slaves to free than those negroes , to wit ...
... reforms of the day were honored and helped by Emerson , but he would not " mistake others ' chivalries for his own . " He said : " My reforms include theirs " ; and again , " I have quite other slaves to free than those negroes , to wit ...
Page 214
... reforms whose fame now fills the land with Temperance , Anti - Slavery , Non- Resistance , No Government , Equal Labor , fair and generous as each appears , are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end . To every reform ...
... reforms whose fame now fills the land with Temperance , Anti - Slavery , Non- Resistance , No Government , Equal Labor , fair and generous as each appears , are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end . To every reform ...
Page 229
... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
Page 236
... reform in all these institutions , their abuses will be re- dressed , and the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor , and a man may select the fittest employ- ment for his peculiar talent again ...
... reform in all these institutions , their abuses will be re- dressed , and the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor , and a man may select the fittest employ- ment for his peculiar talent again ...
Page 247
... reform . I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extrava- gant mark that shall compel me to suicide , or to an absolute isolation from the advantages of civil society . If we suddenly plant our foot ...
... reform . I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extrava- gant mark that shall compel me to suicide , or to an absolute isolation from the advantages of civil society . If we suddenly plant our foot ...
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