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" But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time. A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts.... "
Constructive Rhetoric - Page 141
by Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1896 - 352 pages
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits...kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world. This human mind wrote history and this must...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...expansion of the individual being man, as he existed yesterday, as he exists to-day. " A man," he says, " is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation...kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world." This idea is explained, illustrated, amplified,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits...kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world. This human mind wrote history, and this must...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...thought is prior to the fact; all the facts of history pre-exist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits...kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world. This human mind wrote history and this must...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 5-6

1848 - 916 pages
...universal mind, is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation...kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world. Then, if the whole of history is in one man,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...being man, as he existed yesterday, as he exists to-day. "A man," he says, " is the whole encyclopœdia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in...kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world." This idea is explained, illustrated, amplified,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...being man, as he existed yesterday, as ho exists to-day. " A man," he says, " is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in...kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world." This idea is explained, illustrated, amplified,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...thought is prior to the fact; all the facts of history pre-exist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits...give power to but one at a time. A man is the whole encyclopsedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome,...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts, of history pre-exist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits...give power to but one at a time. A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,...
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The Western Quarterly Review

1849 - 364 pages
...hath an antecedent thought; and if we think of it, every thought lies embosomed in some central germ. "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Britain, America lie folded already in the first man." We have by virtue of our humanity, the secret...
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