There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.


The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson... Fireside edition (ed. 1909)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself...

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself...

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself...

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself...