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Nietzsche, but the universal man in all of us. In Whitman we see Emerson sensualised; in Maeterlinck, ' Emerson degenerate; and in Nietzsche, Emerson insane. But in himself he is sober and modest; and who reads aright, perceives the exquisite harmony of self-respect and respect for others, which is an inaccessible mystery to all worldlings, to the relaxed, and to those who deify themselves. All that is finest in thee, most secret and most precious - the thought that no man entertained before thee, the forms of beauty no other ever could have con ceived, thy rare gift to discover laws hitherto undreamt of-for all these thou art most indebted to that which is not thyself. Indeed, if thou hast not transcended the self of the senses, thou hast not found thyself. Emer son's self-reliance opens out into his over-soul. What thou dost boast of as thyself is not Thyself. There is only one Self, and that is in all of us and is each. Emerson's idealistic individualism is at the same time organic, spiritual socialism. He realised, as many are beginning to do today, that indi vidualism and socialism are mutually dependent conceptions, and both are needed in a sound social philosophy and in a wise psychology.
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