Essays: First Series is Ralph Waldo Emerson's first collection of essays, published in 1841 and central to his statement of transcendentalism. It opens with the essay History, whose own epigraph reads: There is no great and no small to the soul that maketh all.
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Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (1841)
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Essays: First Series is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841, concerning transcendentalism.
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (1841)
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There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are
And it cometh everywhere.
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