 | Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 pages
...the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward...forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. . . . There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse, a valetudinarian,—as... | |
 | Edward Abbey - 1988 - 242 pages
...first age received into him the world around. . . . It came into him life; it went out from him truth. Genius looks forward; the eyes of man are set in his forehead ... Action is with the scholar subordinate but it is also essential. Without it he is not yet a man.... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 pages
...forward looking is a link between Emerson and the pragmatists. "Genius looks forward," Emerson stated, "The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius creates" (Ibid., 1:37). 19 ibid., 1:64. 20 Ibid., 1:65. 21 Ibid., 1:52, 70. 22 Ibid., 1:89. 23 Ibid., 1:82.... | |
 | Raymond Carney - 1994 - 340 pages
...statue.... The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...pin me down. They look backward and not forward." As a response to their pains, Ben, Lelia, Hugh, Rupert, and Tony each try to close up shop on who they... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1999 - 125 pages
...effect of conventional schooling is to perpetuate and exacerbate this situation. As Emerson writes: "The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this" (Essays, 57-58). Thoreau uses a cluster of images for this process, focusing on well-worn paths and... | |
 | Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...inspire" (EL 57). The problem with books, like the problem with all ideas, is that they become exclusive: "The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius" (EL 57). The point, for Emerson, is to extend beyond the past utterance, to become genius oneself.... | |
 | David Fideler - 2000 - 482 pages
...Emerson calls for an original relationship to the universe that goes beyond the worship of dead forms: The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man arc set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates."' While this statement must... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative... | |
 | Cristina Kirklighter - 2002 - 176 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius always... | |
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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward; the eyes of... 
