 A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as,...  Complete Works - Page 62by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...follow his steps as a procession. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio,... | |
 | 2005 - 494 pages
...Carlyle's "great man" theory of history: "A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as ... the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. .... | |
 | 2005 - 494 pages
...man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of [317] minds so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as ... the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson and... | |
 | Adam Hochschild - 2006 - 500 pages
...Clarkson." "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, ". . . the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. . . . All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."... | |
 | Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 pages
...his Steps äs a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his virtue, that he confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An Institution is the lengthened shadow... | |
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