Then, aguin, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor ? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong... Essays - Page 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
| Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 pages
...door-post Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation...as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. These two instances of paradoxes are both allusions to, some might say parodies of, words reported... | |
| Bernard J. Lee - 2004 - 196 pages
...This judgment is corroborated by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay on "Self Reliance": Then, again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation...philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, that I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. (Emerson, 1983, 70) This... | |
| Joel Pfister - 2004 - 364 pages
...to a Scrooge-like individual declaration of independence from social responsibility and involvement: "Do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations," he commanded. "Are they my poor?"10 The tactical value of the snowflake assertion — for Dos Passos,... | |
| Robert F. Cochran, Robert M. Ackerman - 2004 - 284 pages
...self-reliance — "our primary economic obligation is to ourselves."1 ' As Ralph Waldo Emerson says, "[П]o not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Arc they my poor?"18 A communitarian might say that, to some extent, they are. Protection from the... | |
| Norman A. Newberg - 2006 - 250 pages
...self-reliance, but criticizes social institutions whose mission it was to aid those in need: "Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation...as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong" (Emerson 1865, 52). Some Americans do "grudge the dollar" paid through taxes for social programs. Though... | |
| Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - 300 pages
...black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home," Emerson says. Do not tell me ... of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations....as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. Consequently Emerson resisted the fanaticism of the abolitionists until the issue was thrust into his... | |
| Daniel C. Maguire - 2005 - 284 pages
...is that if you don't have a job you deserve nothing. Emerson posed the question blundy:"Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation...to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor?"30 This gospel of the secure was preached also by Herbert Spencer, who said that poverty was... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 pages
...All, between self-reliant individualism or natural aristocracy and a republican companionship, not of "such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong," as Emerson says in a famous passage in "Self-Reliance," but of "noble" types bound by "spiritual affinity"... | |
| Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 pages
...wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim" and "Do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation...all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor?" For Stanton every individual needs their rights, their liberties, as individuals not to avoid responsibility... | |
| Eric Schocket - 2006 - 328 pages
...themselves, they must be represented. — Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Bntmaire of Louis Bonaparte Then, again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they m\ poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I... | |
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