Essays Series 1Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it, in appropriate events. 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. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world. |
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... 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 . The creation ...
... 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 . The creation ...
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... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice ...
... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice ...
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... fact and circumstance , - in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep ...
... fact and circumstance , - in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep ...
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... fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when ...
... fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when ...
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... facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words ... fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke ...
... facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words ... fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke ...
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