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Essays, First Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson




HISTORY.

There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are
And it cometh everywhere.

I am owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain.

I.
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