...accomplish his design; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire....institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley;...

...accomplish his design; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley;...

...accomplish his design; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley;...

...in other words there is properly no history, only biography. History (1841) 1950:127. 2 A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. Self- Reliance (1841) 1940:154. 3 Men are what their mothers made them. Fate (1860) 1979:10. Ernst...

...accomplish his design;—and posterity seems to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man . . . , and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons....

...accomplish his design; - and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as. Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley;...

...that Emerson was expanding on his friend Thomas Carlyle's "great man" theory of history: "A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire....Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. . . . and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."...

...steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. . . . An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man;...of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley. (CW, 2:35) If Emerson writes of a new yet unapproachable American future into which we may step at...

...that Emerson was expanding on his friend Thomas Carlyles "great man" theory of history: "A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of [317] minds so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of...

...Clarkson." "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, ". . . the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. . . . All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."...