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" ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of... "
Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 99
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...dives deep into himself, discovers truth, and finds to his astonishment that his former detractors now "drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature. . . . The people delight in it; the better part of every man feels, This is my music: this is myself" (CW 1:...
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Head and Heart: A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred

Victor Mansfield - 2002 - 308 pages
...in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. . . . The deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest...the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.1 Although this passage was written nearly a century before Jung's major works, in Jungian language...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual

Peter S. Field - 2003 - 292 pages
...— his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers; — that they drink his words because...part of every man feels, This is my music; this is myself.83 One way or another, those who found themselves enchanted by Emerson felt wholeheartedly that...
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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliance

Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...— his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers; — that they drink his words because...them their own nature; the deeper he dives into his privates! secretest presentiment, — to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public,...
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Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...man is one, that we are capable of achieving our commonness, by saying that "the deeper [the scholar] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment,...the most acceptable, most public, and universally true."5 Is this route to the universal compatible with what Dewey means by science and its method?...
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We Stand Before the Secret of the World: Traces Along the Pathway of ...

Paul Scott Derrick, Paul Scott - 2003 - 162 pages
...going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds. [...] the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest...most acceptable, most public, and universally true. (64) Emerson would not at all have been surprised by the correspondences between his own experience...
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Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Volume 4

Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 398 pages
...capable of achieving our commonness, by saying that "the deeper [the scholar] dives into his privatesi, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this...the most acceptable, most public, and universally true."7 Is this route to the universal compatible with what Dewey means by science and its method?...
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Cities of Words

Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 pages
...later, in "The American Scholar," between the two American revolutions, that "the deeper [the scholar] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this the most acceptable, most public, and universally true"? He was asking that each of his fellow citizens...
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The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson

Naoko Saito - 2005 - 238 pages
...none other than what is urged in Emerson's (and Cavell's) call for the education of "Man Thinking"8: [T]he deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest...every man feels, This is my music; this is myself. ("AMS," 49) Education of such an individual, Emerson suggests, is the sole way of shedding a new light...
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The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy

Andrew Norris - 2006 - 404 pages
...biological and the social does not picture his familiar, early claim that "the deeper [the scholar] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment,...most acceptable, most public, and universally true." This seems to be, in its sense that the human is all of one substance, an interpretation of what it...
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