Ralph Waldo Emerson - Succes, an Essay, 1912

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SUCCESS beach but acres of sand ? what the ocean but cubic miles of ter? a

little

more or

nothing. No,

matter

is

brute. It

held

it is

less signifies

somewhat not

that the sand floor

is

gravity, and bent

by spheral

to be a part of the

round globe,

under the optical sky, the

wa-

that this brute

part of is

is

astonishing

part of

astronomy, and

existing at last to moral ends and

from moral causes.

The world

is

not

made up

the eye of figures, that half;

it is

also

that element

with

its

to

is,

only

made of color.

How

washes the universe

enchanting waves

38

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