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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life

Charles Capper - 1994 - 456 pages
...him," he declared that, not only intellectual life, but cultural life as a whole could be transformed: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." 14 Also hearing Emerson's message that day were Bronson Alcott, Henry Hedge, Elizabeth Hoar, and others...
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The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2007 - 437 pages
...bestowed: "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." The Transcendentalist movement was centered in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, the home of many...
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Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice

Juliana Geran Pilon - 2007 - 310 pages
...with our own hands; we will speak our own minds" and build an unprecedented society. And so "a new nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." Could a message offer loftier inspiration— and project more self-confidence? But to his surprise,...
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Bildung versus Self-Reliance?: Selbstkultur bei Goethe und Emerson

Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 pages
...Verbindung des universalistischen mit dem historistischen, nationalistischen Denken liegt: „A nation will for the first time exist, because each believes...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." (CW l, 70).415 Kurt Mueller-Vollmer unterscheidet zwei Phasen im Diskurs über die amerikanische Nation,...
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Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists

Randall Fuller - 2007 - 232 pages
...shall reveal. But it is necessary to again take note of the language set forth in Emerson's final line: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself impired\yy the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (EL 71). At stake here is a temporal belief,...
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...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. 27 The Divinity School Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday...
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Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877

Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - 2007 - 118 pages
...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...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. "THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR" (1837) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is among the most accomplished and revered 1-f...
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The Age of American Unreason

Susan Jacoby - 2008 - 384 pages
...minds. The study of lerters shall be no longer a name tor piiy, for doubt, and tor rensual indulgenee. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defense and a wreath of joy atound all. A nation ot men will for the first time exist, beraure earh...
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