...the reality of the human condition. When he postulates "one mind common to all individual men," that "[e]very man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same," and that the "universal mind ... is the only and sovereign agent," he also admits that though "all...

...sympathetic 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....

...everything else; all is, as he then discovered, unified 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...

...local and non-local, both personal and universal. This is not a new belief. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "There is one mind, common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same [mind] and to all of the same [mind]."3 Moving to the science of behavior — is behavior simply reactions...

...thousand years ago in far-off Galilee. These striking words written long ago mirror the HOW of this truth: "There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an islet to the same and to all of the same. What Plato thought, he may think; what a saint has felt,...

...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...

...The kind your grandmother used to have on the farm THE ROYCROFT SHOP East Aurora, Erie Co., New York THERE is one MIND common to all individual men. Every...made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has though he may think ; what a saint has felt, he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man, he...

...reveals the truth of the same origin. Here is a kindred declaration from the essay titled History, "There is one mind common to all individual men. Every...right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. Emerson may be often enigmatical but he is never self-contradictory, and if sometimes we may be inclined...