The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... matter is a school for the understanding , solidity or resistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its divisibility . The understanding adds , divides , combines , measures , and finds nutriment and room for its activity in ...
... matter is a school for the understanding , solidity or resistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its divisibility . The understanding adds , divides , combines , measures , and finds nutriment and room for its activity in ...
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... matter ? Whence is it ? and Whereto ? The first of these questions only , the ideal theory answers . Idealism saith : matter is a phenomenon , not a substance , Idealism ac- quaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of ...
... matter ? Whence is it ? and Whereto ? The first of these questions only , the ideal theory answers . Idealism saith : matter is a phenomenon , not a substance , Idealism ac- quaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of ...
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... matter , but he who can alter my state of mind . They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art , and persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter , that this ...
... matter , but he who can alter my state of mind . They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art , and persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter , that this ...
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