introductlon ⅰ introductlon ⅱ first series history self-reliance pensation spiritual laws love fmendship prudence heroism theover-soul circles intellect art second series the poet experience character manners gifts nature politics nominalist and realist new england refor-mers appendix the american scholar
this human mind wrote history, and this must read it. the sphinx must solve her own riddle. if the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be ened from individual experience. there is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. as the air i breathe is drawn from the great reitories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages, and the ages ened by the hours. of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation. all its properties consist in him. each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. every revolution was first a thought in one mans mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. the fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible. we as we read must bee greeks, romans, turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, must fasten these images to some reality in……
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