Pages From An Old volume of Life; a Collection of Essays, 1857-1881
The book Pages From An Old volume of Life; a Collection of Essays, 1857-1881 was written by author Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Here you can read free online of Pages From An Old volume of Life; a Collection of Essays, 1857-1881 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Pages From An Old volume of Life; a Collection of Essays, 1857-1881 a good or bad book?
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All this is butsimple Martha's faith, without the reason she could have given: "If Thouhadst been here, my brother had not died. " They little know the tidal movements of national thought and feeling, who believe that they depend for existence on a few swimmers who ridetheir waves. It is not Leviathan that leads the ocean from continent tocontinent, but the ocean which bears his mighty bulk as it wafts itsown bubbles. If this is true of all the narrower manifestations of humanprogress, how much... more must it be true of those broad movements in theintellectual and spiritual domain which interest all mankind? But inthe more limited ranges referred to, no fact is more familiar than thatthere is a simultaneous impulse acting on many individual minds at once, so that genius comes in clusters, and shines rarely as a single star. You may trace a common motive and force in the pyramid-builders of theearliest recorded antiquity, in the evolution of Greek architecture, andin the sudden springing up of those wondrous cathedrals of the twelfthand following centuries, growing out of the soil with stem and bud andblossom, like flowers of stone whose seeds might well have been theflaming aerolites cast over the battlements of heaven.
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