 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...to develop and to teach this ethic. In "The American Scholar," for instance, he writes of the duties "such as become Man Thinking. . . . They may all be comprised in self-trust" (CW 1:62). From self-reliance stems the command to authentic speech, and thus the self-reliant individual... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 pages
...calls (American) scholars, to whom he had given warning in his earlier, most famous address to them: The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. . . . Long he must stammer in his speech; often forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - 1965 - 300 pages
...had found, or, more accurately, to show others how to find the truth for themselves. His function was "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."7 His influence, of course, would be completely spiritual, for he could speak as the representative... | |
 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 pages
...citizens to the possibilities resident and available in ordinary life, and the scholar's office was "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances." In the patient, even solitary, adding of observation to observation the scholar aspired amidst custom... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...makes a similar point in "The American Scholar" (1837) when he claims that it is the scholar's duty "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (W, 1: 100). Emerson seems to imagine himself doing what Carlyle asks him to do in 1844. It is no wonder... | |
 | Sigrid Bauschinger - 1998 - 238 pages
...should lead a different life from that of the solitary loner whom the world associates with scholars. "The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."60 To be sure, by "facts" Emerson here refers to quotidian events. The discussion then... | |
 | Arthur D. Austin - 1998 - 235 pages
...scholarship served a teaching function, the collection of facts to inculcate students with morals. "The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amid appearances." The scholar "must be a university of knowledge." Shortly after the Civil War, state... | |
 | Dorothy J. Hale - 1998 - 264 pages
...Selfconscious manhood might be another name for "Man Thinking." Like the Emersonian scholar whose office it is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (Oration, 19), Du Bois's race leaders begin with self-improvement. According to this model, social... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. Samuel Johnson, The Idler (17 5ยป) 17 The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. RW Emerson, The American Scholar (1837) is The humblest painter is a true scholar, and the best of... | |
 | David Fideler - 2000 - 482 pages
...their integrity, human promise, and essential relatedness to the animating fire of the Divine Mind. "The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."47 Two Platonic Voices Like ThomasJohnson, Ralph \ValdoEmerson found in Neoplatonic idealism... | |
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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. 
