The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 66
... will beam over the universe as on the first morning . 2. It is for want of self - culture that the idol of Traveling , the idol of Italy , of England , of Egypt , remains for all educated Americans They who made England , Italy 66.
... will beam over the universe as on the first morning . 2. It is for want of self - culture that the idol of Traveling , the idol of Italy , of England , of Egypt , remains for all educated Americans They who made England , Italy 66.
Page 68
... travels away from himself , grows old even in youth among old things . In Thebes , in Palmyra , his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they . He carries ruins to ruins D Traveling is a fool's paradise . We owe to our first ...
... travels away from himself , grows old even in youth among old things . In Thebes , in Palmyra , his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they . He carries ruins to ruins D Traveling is a fool's paradise . We owe to our first ...
Page 69
... traveling is itself only a symptom of a deeper unsound- ness affecting the whole intellectual action . The intellect is vagabond , and the universal system of education fosters restlessness . Our minds trav- el when our bodies are ...
... traveling is itself only a symptom of a deeper unsound- ness affecting the whole intellectual action . The intellect is vagabond , and the universal system of education fosters restlessness . Our minds trav- el when our bodies are ...
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