The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautifu…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.2410, Delphi Classics
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