...thing that tends to insulate the individual, — to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man...help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone. The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions...

...thing that tends to insulate the individual, — to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man...state; — tends to true union as well as greatness." Selftrust will strengthen true union, for each sovereign self shall draw together other sovereign selves,...

...thing that tends to insulate the individual, — to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man...sovereign state; — tends to true union as well as greatness."19 The final clause is key. Justice or a "true union" is important, but so is "greatness"...

...the individual," he tells his audience, " — to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man...state; — tends to true union as well as greatness" (p. 70). Sovereignties tending to true union? One is tempted to ask whether any union could survive...

...his time." Then he reverts to his favorite theme, the "new importance given to the single person," so that "each man shall feel the world is his, and man...man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state." The lecture becomes a poet's declaration of American independence from Britain, from Europe. "We have...

...everywhere. It will be one of the greatest factors in your own success. CHAPTER XXX SELF-HELP I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either -willing or able to help any other man. — PESTALOZZI. What I am I have made myself.— HUMPHRY DAW. Be sure, my son, and remember that the...

...persons was always challengeable. Inspired by that which is beyond tangible authority, Emerson could say, "man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state." This irrational sovereignty was humanistic; it was seated really in the conscience, whatever spiritual...

...thing that tends to insulate the individual, — to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man...sovereign state; — tends to true union as well as greatness."19 The final clause is key. Justice or a "true union" is important, but so is "greatness"...

..."Everything that tends to insulate the individual — to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man...state — tends to true union as well as greatness" (70). 5. The antihierarchical self-government of the Puritans became the radical originality of the...

...institutions help, as Emerson says, to surround the individual "with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man...treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state."50 Further, he senses, and is undoubtedly correct, that modern democratic society could, more...