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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. "
Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 84
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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,...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit thisj^ Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the...
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Library Occurrent, Volume 7

1926 - 326 pages
...author remains immortal and cannot die." Richard DeBury— Philobibon. Ch. 1, 21. EC Thomas' trans. "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." — Emerson. PERSONALS Miss Anna Anderson, formerly of the Chicago Public Library, has been added to...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all spects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or ither to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write...own books; or rather, each generation for the next si ceeding. The books of an older period will not fit thisQ Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 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,...will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. 20 The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is transferred to the...
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Bulletin, Issue 10

United States. Office of Education - 1966 - 1002 pages
...proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing. * * * Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is instantly transferred to the record. * * * The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, always...
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Pursuing Melville, 1940-1980: Chapters and Essays

Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - 1982 - 446 pages
...Aristotle that seemed to rise coldly between themselves and Fayaway. "Each age," as Emerson shrewdly said, "must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." The statement aptly applies to the successive Lives of Melville from 1852 to 1892; it is just as pertinent...
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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...Religion auf den "external evidence" der Wundertaten Jesu. Cf. "The American Scholar", CW I, p. 56: "The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation - the act of thought, - is instantly transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was feit to be a divine man. Henceforth the...
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Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?

Gustavo Pérez Firmat - 1990 - 412 pages
...American Scholar" (1837) established the grounds for a national, popular American literature — "Each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."13 Marti's "Nuestra America" similarly provided a base for a national, Latin American literature...
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Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis

Norman O. Brown - 2023 - 216 pages
...Transcendentalist anticipation of what I want to say in Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address on the American Scholar: "The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet...the act of thought, is transferred to the record. Instantly the book becomes noxious: the guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...
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American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in ...

Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 428 pages
...only one aspect of his conception that knowledge needs to be up-to-date, continually newly created: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...The books of an older period will not fit this."** In "The American Scholar" *That movement had been established and promoted by Francis Calley Gray,...
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