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" Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 50
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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The Literary Digest International Book Review, Volume 3

Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 pages
...— such a man would scarcely be set down as a classicist. Neither does this sound like conservatism: "Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He...who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered l>y the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothinc is at last sacred but the integrity...
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My Little Book of Emerson: Being an Introd. to Emerson and a Breviary of His ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a jointstock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...not realities and creators, but names and customs. — SELF-RELIANCE + oo nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low,...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 374 pages
...Society is everywhere in conspiracy against the manhood of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most requests is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...conspiracy august, f,hfi ma.nhnnd of every one of itfl mp™K'"'° Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue^ fo mnsfL request Js ""^^Mnnitv. Selfreliance is its aversion. It loves not" realities and creaiTors,...
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The Teaching of Literature

Charles Carpenter Fries, James Holly Hanford, Harrison Ross Steeves - 1926 - 200 pages
...Reliance demands acceptance or rejection of its challenging assertions. "Society is a joint stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each stockholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." "Society never advances. It recedes...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves so not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist....
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Southern Literary Studies: A Collection of Literary, Biographical, and Other ...

Charles Alphonso Smith - 1927 - 208 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." Kipling has illustrated excessive institutionalism in the character of Tomlinson, Thackeray in the...
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Southern Literary Studies

1927 - 208 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." Kipling has illustrated excessive institutionalism in the character of Tomlinson, Thackeray in the...
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Equitable Society and how to Create it

Warren Edwin Brokaw - 1927 - 396 pages
...have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age. . . . Who so would be a man, must be a non-conformist. He who would...palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind." In the search for truth there is no room...
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A College Grammar

Mason Long - 1928 - 344 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...not realities and creators, but names and customs. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON 12. If the historian is only an investigator, the result is likely to be a...
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