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A man conversing in earnest , if he watch his intellectual processes , will find that a material image more or less luminous arises in his mind , contemporaneous with every thought , which furnishes the vestment of the thought .
A man conversing in earnest , if he watch his intellectual processes , will find that a material image more or less luminous arises in his mind , contemporaneous with every thought , which furnishes the vestment of the thought .
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Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind . Its laws are the laws of his own mind . Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does he not yet possess .
Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind . Its laws are the laws of his own mind . Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does he not yet possess .
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In the divine order , intellect is primary ; nature , secondary ; it is the memory of the mind . That which once existed in intellect as pure law , has now taken body as Nature . It existed already in the mind in solution ; now , it has ...
In the divine order , intellect is primary ; nature , secondary ; it is the memory of the mind . That which once existed in intellect as pure law , has now taken body as Nature . It existed already in the mind in solution ; now , it has ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Contributor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2007 |
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