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" We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence... "
Works - Page 115
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity

Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 pages
...own minds." The American nation was not a nation of Americans. "A nation of men," predicted Emerson, "will for the first time exist, because each believes...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."91 The independence of the American Scholar rendered the whole issue of the cultural independence...
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The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America

Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.50 If we will just watch the individual pennies, Emerson seemed to say, then the societal pounds...
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A Preface to Theology

W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 242 pages
...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...
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A Preface to Theology

W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 pages
...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...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...to national boundaries, opens the conceptual possibility of surmounting those boundaries or limits. "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men," he writes (Essays, 71). The nation described in Emerson's address is both limited and limitless; it...
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Reason to Believe: Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Teaching of Writing

Hephzibah Roskelly, Kate Ronald - 1998 - 212 pages
...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...
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Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology

David Leeming, Jake Page - 1999 - 234 pages
...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...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...overwhelmingly of morally earnest and earnestly moral middle-class men and women. "A nation of men," he said, "will for the first time exist, because each believes...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." This careful technique served Emerson and his audiences very well, and for decades. It served his many...
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The Moral of the Story: Literature and Public Ethics

Henry T. Edmondson - 2000 - 276 pages
...biblical religion and Greek philosophy in favor of "selfreliance," in the hope that, as Emerson put it, "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."3 Emerson, however, was to be disappointed by the unwillingness of most Americans to see the necessity...
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The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

T. Gregory Garvey - 2001 - 310 pages
...himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him . . . [Then] a nation of men will for the first time exist because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (cw 1 : 69-70). The same "Divine Soul" that he describes here not only inspires "each" person, it also...
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