...the pulpit, and that a happier day might restore him to it. He writes in his journal in 1840 : — " In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough and even with loud commendation as long as I call the lecture Art, or Politics, or Literature, or the Household ;...

...the meaning of infinity without recognizing its immortality. " In all my lectures," Emerson wrote, " I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Also Saint Thomas, one of the greatest among the supreme thinkers, says, " In that manner wherein our...

...this growing inclination in all persons who aim to speak the truth, for manual labor and the farm.1 In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough, and even with i Here follow passages printed in " Man the Reformer" (Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, pp. 233, 238)....

...others. Whatever he called it, his theme, as he himself confesses, was always fundamentally the same: " In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough and even with loud commendations as long as I call the lecture Art or Politics, or Literature, or the Household,...

...words, "the tyranny of the masses." He was all for the individual, and wrote in his diary in 1840, "In my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson's goal was personal liberty; his gospel, the self-sufficiency of the individual; his philosophy,...

...easily see in Boston and Cambridge and the villages also — that what men want is a Religion. April 7 In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough, and even with loud commendation, as long as I call the lecture Art, or Politics, or Literature, or the Household;...

...rest upon a theological foundation. Rather it is the starting point and ultimate aim of his project. In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man..65 Yet most Emerson scholars have given him too much of the benefit of the doubt regarding just...

...advocated a solitary stance against the tyranny of the social. "In all of my lectures," wrote Emerson, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Moreover, as Santayana observed, there are philosophical reasons why pragmatism may be seen as departing...

...was applied to the subject of religion, as Emerson discovered after his "Divinity School Address." 12 "In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man," he commented in his journal. "This, the people accept readily enough, & even with loud commendation,...

...Transcendentalist views which the public refused to receive from the pulpit, and somewhat wryly noted that, "In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely,...private man. This the people accept readily enough . . . [until] the moment I call it Religion." Emerson took up his new vocation at a most favorable...