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<Author>Emerson, Ralph Waldo</Author>
<Title>Essays: First Series</Title>
<Edition>Essays and Lectures. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1841</Date>
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HISTORY
<l> ----- </l>
<l>There is no great and no small </l>
<l>To the Soul that maketh all: </l>
<l>And where it cometh, all things are; </l>
<l>And it cometh everywhere. </l>
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<l>I am owner of the sphere, </l>
<l>Of the seven stars and the solar year, </l>
<l>Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, </l>
<l>Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain. </l>
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ESSAY I <i>History</i>
<p>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 . . .
