“Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, book Nature

Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar 1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837) Variant: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.

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