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" The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. "
Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 78
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 315 pages
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Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform

Leslie Butler - 2009 - 400 pages
...National Crisis 17 Manlike Let Him Turn and Face the Danger 20 The World's Eye . . . the World's Heart 26 To Cheer, to Raise, and to Guide Men by Showing Them Facts amidst Appearances 35 This Revolution Is to Be Wrought by the Gradual Domestication of the Ideal of Culture 42 2. The...
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Villages ; Cambridge commencement ; The White Mountains ; Channing ; Mutes ...

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 310 pages
...opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action." . . . " They (the duties of the scholar; are such as become Man Thinking. They may all be comprised...them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatory, may...
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