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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... been the man that made the minster : we have seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size Essays 1st Series 13.
... been the man that made the minster : we have seen how it could and must be . We have the sufficient reason . The difference between men is in their principle of association . Some men classify objects by color and size Essays 1st Series 13.
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... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the ...
... seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit , and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock . There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the ...
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... seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward ; a thought which ...
... seen without heed . A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward ; a thought which ...
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... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathe- edrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his ...
... seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest . Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathe- edrals , without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder , and that his ...
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... seen the first monks and anchorets , without crossing seas or centuries . More than once some individual has appeared to me with such negligence of labor and such commanding contemplation , a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of ...
... seen the first monks and anchorets , without crossing seas or centuries . More than once some individual has appeared to me with such negligence of labor and such commanding contemplation , a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of ...
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