...the other. In other words, we must unsettle our thought. "People wish to be settled," says Emerson; "only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." Change unsettles habits. It ¡s therefore uncomfortable and may even be painful, but it is only through...

...was salutary in the experience of America when he wrote in the frontier accent, "People wish [122] to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." His challenge was met by Thoreau, the Dawn of the new day, who made a resolute attempt at self-fulfillment,...

...afflictions. For Emerson, however, surprises were always welcome. "People wish to be settled," he wrote, but "only as far as they are unsettled, is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises" ("Circles," in CW, II, 189). 1 THIS 1s JOVE, WHO DEAF TO PRAYERS, FLOODS...

...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power of to-morrow,...

...fluidity. "There are no fixtures to men, if we appeal to consciousness," writes Emerson in "Circles." "People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them" (CW, II, 182). The actualist self can accommodate this dynamism of thought — Whitman's self-contradictions,...

...energising spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant, to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled: only äs far äs they are unsettled, is there any hope for them. Durch Hinzunahme der in "Circles" noch...

...succinctly in "I unsettle all things." But the will to undo is shadowed even here by the urge to re-do: "People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." Through such repetitions the reader is stayed and gathered in again, as his progression curves into...

...with his central message he could say: "Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."8 Again, addressing himself to the American sense of new beginnings, he spoke thus: "No man ever...

...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in...as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.21 The third premise of Emerson's theodicy is that the experimental makings, workings, and doings...

...the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. . . . No truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in...as far as they are unsettled, is there any hope for them."31 Emerson applies his notion of radical human freedom to the moral domain in "Circles," again...