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" If there be one lesson more than another, which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is... "
Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures - Page 115
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920

Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 pages
...his faith in the emancipatory power of the heroic scholar — "the man," as Emerson famously said, "who must take up into himself all the ability of...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future," to become a "university of knowledges."18 Drawing upon the organicist understanding of society in Comtean...
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Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis

Phillip Sipiora, James S. Baumlin - 2002 - 276 pages
...change the course of American literature, indeed of world literature. The scholar "must be able to take up into himself all the ability of the time,...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future" (70). He is, in fact, himself a kairos, the leader in a new American age of spiritualized letters....
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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliance

Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
..."that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone. The scholar is that man who must...there be one lesson more than another which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature,...
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American Social and Political Thought: A Reader

Andreas Hess - 2003 - 504 pages
...29 TWO ESSAYS: THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR AND THE YOUNG AMERICAN Ralph Waldo Emerson THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR The scholar is that man who must take up into himself...there be one lesson more than another, which should pierce his ear, it is: the world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature,...
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Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching

Tara Brabazon - 2002 - 242 pages
...awareness and consciousness is damaging, dangerous and destructive. CONCLUSION: SOCRATES IN THE SOFTWARE The scholar is that man who must take up into himself...the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be a university of knowledges. 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson The idea that the capitalist system wants a good...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...itself to the single joint of the finger, such words as these: — " The scholar is that man who most take up into himself all the ability of the time,...the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the foture. He must be a university of knowledges. ... We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...
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Theology in a Global Context: The Last Two Hundred Years

Hans Schwarz - 2005 - 624 pages
...that "we have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe."99 But on the other hand he conceded: "The scholar is that man who must take up into himself...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future." And that Emerson, as well as Hegel, certainly did. Emerson was born in Boston as the son of a pastor...
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Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics

Jann Pasler - 2007 - 528 pages
..."killingry, " when Cage uses Fuller to turn the tone political. By assimilating, in Emerson's words, "all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future," such an artist can be "the world's eye" and "the world's heart." Given the importance of Emerson for...
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
..."that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone. The scholar is that man who must...there be one lesson more than another, which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature,...
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