...very ill laid out. Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities of one. As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. The history of the State sketches in coarse outline the progress of thought, and follows at a distance...

...tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...disapprobation. The gods love him because men hated him. The hero, Emerson wrote in "The Poet," is commonly regarded as a "fool and a churl for a long season,"...

...false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. ... As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. . . . But in all unbalanced minds, the classification is idolized, passes for the end, and not for...

...he can digest. HAVELOCK ELLIS (1 859-1939), British psychologist. The Dance of Life. ch. 5(1923). 4 is the way the world ends RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-82). US essayist, poet, philosopher. F".i>- "Self-Reliance* (First Series,...

...WALDO EMERSON. Prayer as a mean! to effect a private end la meannesa and theft — As men-s prayers arc a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the Intellect. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON. An astounding revelation saved from the flames that burnt the Alexandrian...

...shoes from off their feet, for God is here within." But is this the God of religion? Certainly not: "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." How does Emerson view himself in relations with others and society? His attitude does not seem salutary...

...tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...disapprobation. The gods love him because men hated him" (V. Turner, Rediscovering 217). Both the Carrs and Butler were native New Englanders, and their devotion...

...and reason, body and soul, good and evil, light and dark, coming into being and fading into death. As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Self-Reliance CHAPTER 4 Straight from the Witch's Mouth PERSONAL INTERVIEWS...

...doubtless so. He speaks with authority. " With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." "Traveling is a fool's paradise." " Society never advances." "In the Will work and acquire, and thou...