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Emerson From Conduct of Life - 1860
Emerson From Conduct of Life - 1860
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military success. Good husbandry 6.nd.s wile, children and household. The good merchant, large
gains, ships, st.ocks, and money. The good poet,
fame and literary credit ; but not either, the other.
Yet there is commonly a. ronfusion of expectations
on these points. Hotspu-.: lives for the moment,
praises himsel for it, and despises Furlong, that he
does not. H otspur of OOUJ'Se is poor, and Furlong
a good provider. The odd circumstance is that
Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this
improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with
Furlong's lands.
I have not at all completed my design. But we
must not leave the topic without casting one glance
into the interior rec&ISCS. It is a doctrine of philosophy that man is a being of degrees ; that there
is nothing in the world which is not repeated in
his body, his body being a sort of miniature or
summary of the world ; then that there is nothing
in his body which is not repeated as in a celestial
sphere in his mind ; then, there is nothing in hi8
bra.in which is not repeated in a higher sphere in
his moral syst.em.
5. Now theee things are so in Nature. All
things ascend, and the royal rule of economy ia
that it should ascend also, or, whatever we do
must always have a higher aim. Thus it is a
maxim tllat money is another kind of blood. Pe--
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CONDUCT OF LIFE.
WEALTH.
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