…the only way of arriving at this Universal mind, is to quit the whole world, & take counsel of the bosom alone
The Universal mind is so far from being measured in any finite numbers, that its verdict would be vitiated at once by any reference to numbers, however large. “The multitude is the worst argument,” and, in fact, the only way of arriving at this Universal mind, is to quit the whole world, & take counsel of the bosom alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:282
