 | Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 pages
...the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. all. A nation of men will for the first time exist,...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. DIVINITY SCHOOL ADDRESS (1838)* The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence... | |
 | Anthony John Harding - 1985 - 208 pages
...their own feet and speak their own minds, Emerson says in the peroration to "The American Scholar," "a nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (AmS, p. 1 15). Such trumpet-calls are an integral part of the symphony of Transcendentalist enthusiasms,... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 pages
...The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." u These words place the new beginning in a future mystically transfigured. But how is the transfiguration... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen - 1986 - 472 pages
...absolute existential equality. "A nation of men will for the first time exist," Emerson foretells, "because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." So it was believed, and so the belief produced an idea of culture convertible with an idea of America:... | |
 | Cornel West - 1989 - 292 pages
...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...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.12 Emerson's own rhetorical strategies function in a complex manner. On the one hand, his mythic... | |
 | Paul Goetsch, Gerd Hurm - 1992 - 314 pages
...conclusion: 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...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.66 It is more than obvious that such proclamations concern the Fourth of July and America's vision... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 pages
...own minds." The American nation was not a nation of Americans. "A nation of men," predicted Emerson, "will for the first time exist, because each believes...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."91 The independence of the American Scholar rendered the whole issue of the cultural independence... | |
 | Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...so. 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...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.50 If we will just watch the individual pennies, Emerson seemed to say, then the societal pounds... | |
 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 242 pages
...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... | |
 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 pages
...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... | |
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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 dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence... 
