 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 530 pages
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of'thought, is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 508 pages
...proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing. Or, I might say, it depends on how far the process had...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is instantly transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man. Henceforth the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing. Or, I might say, it depends on how far the process had...hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which 5932 attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — Is transferred to the record. The... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1906 - 144 pages
...the educational experiences of later generations. I can cite but two of them. He taught that each age must write its own books ; " or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." How true that is in our own day when eighty thousand new books come from the press of the civilized... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, 15 must write its own books ; or rather, each generation...attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, 20 is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1908 - 506 pages
...proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing. Or, I might say, it depends on how far the process had...period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave rnischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — ,is instantly... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...pure thought that shall be as efficient in all respects to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation—the act of thought—is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, 01 rather, to the second age. Each age, it is found,...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. 5 13. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...thought, 10 that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. is Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...for nothing but to inspire. It is absurd to make fetishes out of the literature of the Past, for " each age, it is found, must write its own books ;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." No, let us learn to walk on our own feet, let us work with our own hands, let us speak our own minds.... | |
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. 
