...time. Self-reliance to Emerson was the cure for all that was wrong in the world of American business: "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him" (Emerson 1971:69). s A betterment of the polity and the social collective was a logical outgrowth of...

...foundation he had established for himself years before and articulated in "Self-Reliance." In it he said, They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. In the confusion in which America found itself throughout the 1850s, voices like Emerson's were as...

...do. Here's where we get our robust strain of self-reliance. As Emerson said (yes, also in Nature), "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." The transcendentalists were an equal-opportunity group. So what if some adherents saw transcendentalism...

...office and duties of the scholar and issued a challenge to all creative genius in his statement, "If a single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts,...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." Again and again, in the "Divinity School Address," in addresses on "Man the Reformer" and on "Literary...

...told an audience at Harvard in 1833: "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. ... If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist." Being a democrat, not a great but "feudal" poet...

...which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust — some of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience — patience — with the shades of all the good and great for company; and for solace, the...

...image that describes the connection between individual and political consensus. He emphatically asserts that "if the single man plant himself indomitably...there abide, the huge world will come round to him . . . [Then] a nation of men will for the first time exist because each believes himself inspired by...

...young American scholars of his day, and he rested his hopes for his long-term reputation on this: "If a single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts,...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist. "t Chronology 1895 Born October 19 in Flushing,...

...was passed to him. It read; For Al, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us; "They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful, now crowding to the harriers of their careers, did not yet see if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then...

...which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust - some of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not...the career, do not yet see, that, if the single man From: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Lectures (New York: The Library of America, 1983). plant himself...