...ever come out of America. For myself I was indignant at his slurring estimate of Emerson as merely "the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit", ignoring him as a poet and among the first of contemporary poets. I had the great pleasure of bringing...

...philosophy-maker," claimed for him a relation of even superior importance. That relation to us is this: Emerson "is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." It was for this reason, Arnold concluded, that Emerson's Essays are the most important work done in...

...prose reaches in this its highest point. EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882) The American Scholar Essays "The friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." Emerson is still our wisest counselor and the chief spiritual force in American literature. GAYLEY,...

...not that of one of these personages; yet it is a relation of, I think, even superior importance . . . the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." Arnold was not a good speaker. General Grant could not distinguish what Arnold was saying, but he enjoyed...

...Moreover, he could both see and exemplify the workings of the organic law in its qualitative aspect. He is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit, because of his insight — rare in these times of inner disharmony — into the life of the spirit,...

...in high repute. In that same lecture he would praise Emerson in the well-remembered phrase, "He is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." "I always found him of more use than Carlyle," Arnold wrote late in his life to his sister. Elsewhere,...

...neither a great poet, a great philosopher, nor a great man of letters; only, like Marcus Aurelius, "the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." This phrase may, no doubt, mean much, but certainly there was no great enthusiasm shown in expanding...

...brief comments made by Matthew Arnold shortly after Emerson's death. When Arnold described Emerson as "the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit," he was quietly but aptly reminding us of Coleridge and of the specific works of that Inquiring Spirit...

...partial and exclusive. It must never be overlooked that Emerson's aim was exclusively practical. If he was the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit it was because it happened so, and not because of any special design on his part. He did not address...

...opposition which it encounters in the material world, and its triumphs over it. Arnold said that Emerson was the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit; we may say of Bergson that he is the friend and aider of those who would see with the spirit and enter...