...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...uite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches, —a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth, supp... ...ay to him, ‘Go love thy infant; love thy wood-chopper; be good-natured and modest; have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambi- ti... ...ns of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative... ... moonlight was a pleasing fever and the stars were letters and the flowers ciphers and the air was coined into song; when all business seemed an imper... ...wn on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil which curtains events it... ...gle figures. Here is the artist himself improvising, grim and glad, at his block. Now one thought strikes him, now another, and with each moment he al... ... different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theo-...

...Excerpt: History. 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 under...