...selfreliance, which he had set against the deplorable habit that "man postpones or remembers" and that "he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments" the unrecapturable past. In "Circles," the transcendentalist had claimed that the one thing which we seek...

...time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. He goes on: But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present. . . . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. ("Self-Reliance,"...

...to-day. There is no time to them."35 Der Mensch macht den Fehler, dass er voller Nostalgie zurückblickt. „But man postpones or remembers; he does not live...in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past."36 Emerson will diese Melancholie vertreiben. Wenn wir der Wahrheit ins Auge blicken, spielt...

...them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf -bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown...the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or...

...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds., adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted...

...reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. . . . Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;...satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. (CW2, 38 -39) This passage presents a different problem. Often by way of contrast with what he terms...