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 141by Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1896 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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