Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeedin… - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
In dealing with the State we ought to remember that its institution are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good, we may make better.
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
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