| Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - 278 pages
...Emerson's self-reliance is a mode of self-trust that calls upon the individual to "accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society...of your contemporaries, the connection of events." Where Nietzsche speaks in the far-future tense, addressing unknown, future friends, rare free spirits... | |
| Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 404 pages
...summarizes the position: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society...of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all... | |
| Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pages
...the blocks with which we build, says the poet again. We cannot choose the material. Accept the place the Divine Providence has found for you. The society of your contemporaries and the connection of events, says Emerson in that, to me, epochal paragraph. I pass it on to you.... | |
| Alan Ryan - 1995 - 426 pages
...content as they operate in remaking conditions."59 Appealing to Emerson's injunction to "accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society...of your contemporaries, the connection of events," Dewey ends with this thought: "To gain an integrated individuality, each of us needs to cultivate his... | |
| Joan Larkin - 1998 - 418 pages
...the opportunity for growth that the presence of someone in my life offers me. 239 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society...of your contemporaries, the connection of events. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every time I look down the list of Steps, I get scared. The Ninth Step scares me... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. 3302 Accept the place 18 Religlo Medici We term sleep a death, and yet it...is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirit 3303 All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. 3304 All history is but the lengthened shadow... | |
| Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society...of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all... | |
| Christopher Curtis Mead - 1999 - 220 pages
...classically American. Ralph Waldo Emerson called it "Self-Reliance" in 1841: "Great men have always . . . confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all... | |
| Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...a "rejecter of all that is," but, as Emerson said in "Self-Reliance," must rather "accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events" (28). Emerson admits that there is a pathology in trifling and an unworthiness... | |
| Stephen C. Ausband - 2000 - 144 pages
...in the work of both men: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society...done so, and confided themselves childlike to the spirit of their age, betraying their perception the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart,... | |
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