 | R. Todd Felton - 2006 - 99 pages
...himself and himself in Nature, inspired into action by the best books, the American scholar's duty is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing...slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation." While this might subject "Man Thinking" to poverty, scorn, and solitude, there would be benefits: "For... | |
 | Erin Gruwell - 2007 - 808 pages
...what other generations have done — men who are creative, inventive, and discoverers. — JEAN PIAGET The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amid appearances. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, FROM HIS BOOK THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR; SELF-RELIANCE; COMPENSATION... | |
 | Leslie Butler - 2009 - 400 pages
...National Crisis 17 Manlike Let Him Turn and Face the Danger 20 The World's Eye . . . the World's Heart 26 To Cheer, to Raise, and to Guide Men by Showing Them Facts amidst Appearances 35 This Revolution Is to Be Wrought by the Gradual Domestication of the Ideal of Culture 42 2. The... | |
 | Randall Fuller - 2007 - 232 pages
...splendor an integrated and fully quickened "Man Thinking!' This harmonizing thinker, whose duty was "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (EL 63), would accomplish his task by employing the resources of Nature, books, and action. And he... | |
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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. 
