...America, and it is this spirit that preserves the republic. Emerson has expressed it in a sentence: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." It is undoubtedly true that the largest influence in the development of this spirit came from the Puritans...

...geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indul- 20 gence. The dread...

...institution. In New England, during August, 1837, Emerson, speaking on " The American Scholar," was saying : " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." But in none of these respects was the South accomplishing much; its every energy was spent in holding...

...instincts, and there abide," the individual act would be the invention of society, the invention of America: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."60 Emerson thus indelibly stamped religious thought in America by his proclamation that the wholeness...

...other lands, draws to a close. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our minds.29 At the time that Schreiner's essay "South Africa" appeared in the Fortnightly Review, British...

...least prophetic, as American scientists rapidly achieved independence from their European forefathers: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."' A similar cultural revolution occurred among painters. By mid-decade, the Hudson This paper is based...

...emblematizes the act of political association as action, as the movement of an entire nation as one body: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds," he writes. "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by...

...individuals are not separable from the powers of the group, of the culture in which the individual resides: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (55 ). It's this connection between individual consciousness and national or public change and growth...

...men in libraries when they wrote these books." Coming out of the libraries, Emerson's new scholars "will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands, we will speak our own minds."54 More unwarranted arrogance, Norton and Bowen would say, while "the likeminded," Emerson's...

...inner freedom, which would create a new type of human being. In his essay "Self-Reliance" he writes, "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." In the sense that he saw in America the potential for a new Eden and a new humanity, then, Emerson...