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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume 2

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Contents - History - Self-Reliance - Compensation - Spritual Laws - Love - Friendship - Prudence - Heroism - The Over-Soul - Circles - Intellect - Art

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hang in heaven an immortal sign? London and Paris and New York must go the same way. " What is history," said Napoleon, " but a fable agreed upon? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt, Greece, Gaul, England, War, Colonization, Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay. I will not make more account of them. I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and the Islands, -- the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself, -- must go over the whole ground. That it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know. What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, it will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule. Somewhere, sometime, it will demand and find compensation for that loss, by doing the work itself. Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known. The better for him.

History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a, fact in human

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