...to national boundaries, opens the conceptual possibility of surmounting those boundaries or limits. "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men," he writes (Essays, 71). The nation described in Emerson's address is both limited and limitless; it...

...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...

...inner freedom, which would create a new type of human being. In his essay "Self-Reliance" he writes, "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." In the sense that he saw in America the potential for a new Eden and a new humanity, then, Emerson...

...overwhelmingly of morally earnest and earnestly moral middle-class men and women. "A nation of men," he said, "will for the first time exist, because each believes...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." This careful technique served Emerson and his audiences very well, and for decades. It served his many...

...biblical religion and Greek philosophy in favor of "selfreliance," in the hope that, as Emerson put it, "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."3 Emerson, however, was to be disappointed by the unwillingness of most Americans to see the necessity...

...himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him . . . [Then] a nation of men will for the first time exist because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (cw 1 : 69-70). The same "Divine Soul" that he describes here not only inspires "each" person, it also...

...will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defense and a wreath of joy around all. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each...

...divine promise has come: The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. (71) Emerson calls the new American scholar to seize this special historical moment and to change the...

...ähnlich: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which inspires all men."10 Henry David Thoreau zieht, wie er in Waiden berichtet, am 4. Juli in seine Hütte...

...work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. — A nation of men will for the first tune exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." This grand Oration was our intellectual Declaration of Independence. Nothing like it had been heard...