Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xv
... individual which was signalised by the French Revolution . Yet , whilst so related to the general European movement , the conditions of life in the New World differentiated it widely from European instances . The new tendency had not ...
... individual which was signalised by the French Revolution . Yet , whilst so related to the general European movement , the conditions of life in the New World differentiated it widely from European instances . The new tendency had not ...
Page xxiii
... History . Both Nature and Man are comprehensible to the individual because the same Mind speaks to him through both . From each soul , as from a centre , a “ ray " " of relation passes to every other thing , INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
... History . Both Nature and Man are comprehensible to the individual because the same Mind speaks to him through both . From each soul , as from a centre , a “ ray " " of relation passes to every other thing , INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
Page xxiv
... individual men . " " What Plato has thought we may think , what a saint has felt we may feel ; " because Plato and the saint were instruments of the same divine mind to which we also have access . And this explains his doctrine of ...
... individual men . " " What Plato has thought we may think , what a saint has felt we may feel ; " because Plato and the saint were instruments of the same divine mind to which we also have access . And this explains his doctrine of ...
Page xxv
... individual and the transcendental faith in individual sufficiency . His writings are , as we know , a perfect store- house of quotations for the modern advocate of " Personal Liberty . " But there is this to be said , that Emerson's ...
... individual and the transcendental faith in individual sufficiency . His writings are , as we know , a perfect store- house of quotations for the modern advocate of " Personal Liberty . " But there is this to be said , that Emerson's ...
Page xxvi
... individual right which consists with the public ill . Passing now to Emerson's more definite views on the subject of social reform , we find an attitude somewhat different from that of men of our own time ; the actuating motive to ...
... individual right which consists with the public ill . Passing now to Emerson's more definite views on the subject of social reform , we find an attitude somewhat different from that of men of our own time ; the actuating motive to ...
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