...injury to all the members. America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous" (AS, ^2).-9 Since "every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same" (W, 2: 3), no man can commit a violence upon another without committing a similar violence upon himself....

...Emerson wrote that "Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint...any time has befallen any man, he can understand." By recovering things from the past or by looking at experience differently we can see how to think...

...to communicate them by words if any other medium is available." CS Lewis, "Studies in Words" (I960) "He that is once admitted to the right of reason is...any time has befallen any man, he can understand.... "There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.. ..We, as we read, must...

...this intellectual timidity, Emerson holds that There is one mmd common to all mdividual men. . . . What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint...at any time has befallen any man, he can understand Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation.-" For Emerson, in the work of the...

...common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. . . . What Plato thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may...any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of...

...by thought or, as he wrote in "History," mind: There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. . . . What Plato thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he, may feel; what at any time has befallen...

...historical periods, guarantees that every historical text will be comprehensible to each new reader: "Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. . . . What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has...

...learning about people and events of the past, an individual can come to reexperience history, so that [w]hat Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint...he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, we can understand. . . . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same...

...identity into universal wisdom. But two sentences later Emerson is offering something rather different: "He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate" (237). Emerson's transition rides on the implicit semantic duplicity in the word common; before the...