From Emerson and Other Essays, by John Jay Chapman
THE WORLD
"The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half of mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down. The odds are the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy."
From Emerson
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