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The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact ; one after another reduces all strange constitutions , all new powers , to their class and their law , and goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization ...
The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact ; one after another reduces all strange constitutions , all new powers , to their class and their law , and goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization ...
Page 130
Thus is he , as I think , the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man . 1. In this point of view we become sensible of the first defect of historical Christianity . Historical Christianity has fallen into the error ...
Thus is he , as I think , the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man . 1. In this point of view we become sensible of the first defect of historical Christianity . Historical Christianity has fallen into the error ...
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We have contrasted the Church with the Soul . In the soul then let the redemption be sought . Wherever a man comes , there comes revolution . The old is for slaves . When a man comes , all books are legible , all things transparent ...
We have contrasted the Church with the Soul . In the soul then let the redemption be sought . Wherever a man comes , there comes revolution . The old is for slaves . When a man comes , all books are legible , all things transparent ...
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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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