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VII SPIRIT T is essential to a true theory of nature and of man , that it should contain somewhat progressive . Uses that are exhausted or that may be , and facts that end in the statement , cannot be all that is true of this brave ...
VII SPIRIT T is essential to a true theory of nature and of man , that it should contain somewhat progressive . Uses that are exhausted or that may be , and facts that end in the statement , cannot be all that is true of this brave ...
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Yet , if it only deny the existence of matter , it does not satisfy the demands of the spirit . It leaves God out of me . It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions , to wander without end . Then the heart resists it ...
Yet , if it only deny the existence of matter , it does not satisfy the demands of the spirit . It leaves God out of me . It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions , to wander without end . Then the heart resists it ...
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Spirit alters , moulds , makes it . The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit ; to pure spirit it is fluid , it is volatile , it is obedient . Every spirit builds itself a house , and beyond its house a world ...
Spirit alters , moulds , makes it . The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit ; to pure spirit it is fluid , it is volatile , it is obedient . Every spirit builds itself a house , and beyond its house a world ...
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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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