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Page 71
Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit . He filled nature with his overflowing currents . Out from him sprang the sun and moon ; from man the sun , from woman the moon . The laws of his mind , the periods of his actions ...
Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit . He filled nature with his overflowing currents . Out from him sprang the sun and moon ; from man the sun , from woman the moon . The laws of his mind , the periods of his actions ...
Page 89
The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , slow to open to the incursions of Reason , having once so opened , having once received this book , stands upon it , and makes an outcry if it is disparaged . Colleges are built on it .
The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , slow to open to the incursions of Reason , having once so opened , having once received this book , stands upon it , and makes an outcry if it is disparaged . Colleges are built on it .
Page 350
Once possessed of the principle , it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it . A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time ...
Once possessed of the principle , it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it . A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time ...
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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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