We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
| Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 pages
...Emerson das gesamte intellektuelle Leben in Amerika befallen, darin eingeschlossen das Bildungssystem. „We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling...with foreign Ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Fast and Distant." (CW 2, 47). Für Robert Weisbuch sind dies Kennzeichen... | |
| Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have... | |
| Bryan R. Warnick - 2009 - 180 pages
...from the true self, corrupting the intellect: "We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste;...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant" (p. 198). Imitating exemplars is not only a counterfeit... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 798 pages
...the universal system of edueation fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are foreed to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation...ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our whole minds, lean to, and follow the past and the distant as the eyes of a maid follow her mistress. The soul ereated... | |
| University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 pages
...travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste;...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean and follow the past and the distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished.... | |
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