...is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is...this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. — HISTORY Do you believe in a "universal mind"?...

...is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is...this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. Of the works of this mind history is the record....

...in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius." In the essay on "History," he says, "Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done . . ." and "A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts." Every rhetorical gesture of Emerson's...

...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, he may feel; who hath access to The Univers al Mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only...

...his great Essays, First Series by asserting, "There is one mind common to all individual men. . . . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent."6? In Moods, Louisa confronted the possibility that...

...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...