...Pioneers. What is this spirit ? Emerson has expressed it in a sentence : " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." This was the spirit which animated that little group of colonists who preferred the unknown hardships...

...south ? Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The...

...imitation is suicide; he summoned them as with a trumpet call to a newer freedom: We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. This remarkable address was epoch-making; Holmes calls it "our intellectual Declaration of Independence."...

...instincts, and there abide," the individual act would be the invention of society, the invention of America: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." 60 Emerson thus indelibly stamped religious thought in America by his proclamation that the wholeness...

...instincts, and there abide," the individual act would be the invention of society, the invention of America: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."60 Emerson thus indelibly stamped religious thought in America by his proclamation that the wholeness...

...his instincts and there abide, the huge world will come round to him . . . We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. (Emerson, 1971, pp. 69-70) Emerson calls not only for the independence of the individual, but also...

...close. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our minds.29 At the time that Schreiner's essay "South Africa" appeared in the Fortnightly Review, British...

...scientists rapidly achieved independence from their European forefathers: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."' A similar cultural revolution occurred among painters. By mid-decade, the Hudson This paper is based...

...political association as action, as the movement of an entire nation as one body: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds," he writes. "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by...

...individuals are not separable from the powers of the group, of the culture in which the individual resides: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (55 ). It's this connection between individual consciousness and national or public change and growth...