...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 defense and a wreath of joy around all. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each...

...promise has come: 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...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. (71) Emerson calls the new American scholar to seize this special historical moment and to change the...

...ähnlich: "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...believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which inspires all men."10 Henry David Thoreau zieht, wie er in Waiden berichtet, am 4. Juli in seine Hütte...

...work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. — A nation of men will for the first tune exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." This grand Oration was our intellectual Declaration of Independence. Nothing like it had been heard...

...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...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. THE YOUNG AMERICAN Gentlemen, the development of our American internal resources, the extension to...

...together other sovereign selves, moving in mutual self-trust toward a common source. As Emerson concludes: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." So ends Emerson's vision of the American Scholar: the spilled drops that cannot be gathered will become...

...all" (70) laute die neue Botschaft einer zukünftigen Gesellschaft, deren Verwirklichung Amerika ist: „A nation of men will for the first time exist,...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (7l)16. Die Verteidigung der individuellen Inspiration ist es auch, die Emersons skeptische Haltung...

...social institutions. The closing words, in the same vein, look forward hopefully to the time when: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."32 This sentence almost surely meant something different from what it's come to mean. It's come...

...we will speak our own minds. Then shall man 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 and a wreath of love around all. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired...

...Emerson's celebration of the first is the image not of isolated heroes but of a nation of men in which "each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (W i : 70). The Puritan doctrine of a predestined elect is here stretched to include potentially everyone,...