...brave, selftrusting, active ; and as he has his rights, so he has his duties. If he fulfils them — "if the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." There was nothing parochial in his scholastic attitude — nor was his patriotism any more sectional...

...see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding* to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably...instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come 40 round to him. Patience, — patience ; with the shades of all the good and great for company; and...

...by the very men who lived to see all of them vindicated. In 1837 he had said to the young scholars: "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the world will come round to him." He did just that, and in fifty years the world had come round to him....

...specimen — WALDO. (The vital glow still upon his face.) There is an infinitude in the private man! If a single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts,...there abide, the huge world will come round to him . . . ! (The LIGHT FALLS AWAY on WALDO, as he goes off. The LIGHT INTENSIFIES on HENRY and JOHN —...

...see, "and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." Although "Man Thinking," as Emerson called the brave figure of whom he was speaking, must be willing...

..."New World future."13 Thus Emerson can assure his audience that if the new man, the American, would "plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."14 This American Colossus bestriding his "narrow world" provides us with an image that seems to...

...as an important center of what Pound would have called a "vortex." As Emerson said a century before, "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the great world will come round to him." And come it did, first to the pages of the Fugitive and later...

...declaration of intellectual independence, but it rang with an almost solipsistic self-sufficiency, too. "[I]f the single man plant himself indomitably on...there abide, the huge world will come round to him" (79). "Books are for the scholars' idle times" (68). "I had better never see a book than to be warped...

...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...

...see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably...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...