...a new way of thinking and living. Emerson opened his landmark work Nature with the declaration that "there are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship." The new "American scholar" he described to the graduating seniors of the Phi Beta Kappa Society would...

...generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men,...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship. 112 Neumann, like Brown, sees the artist as the primary agent of change and the harbinger of the new...

...generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men,...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship." 1" The spirit moved through nature, and it was there that Emerson would seek for it, enjoining others...

...generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men,...we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order...