 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . . . The virtue in most requests is conformity. Selfreliance is its aversion. It loves...not realities and creators, but names and customs. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher Never speak disrespectfully of... | |
 | Leslie Paul Thiele - 1990 - 258 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." 38 socialization. Nietzsche was not party to the conspiracy theory of morality and civil society. Morality,... | |
 | Malini Johar Schueller - 1992 - 220 pages
...of individualism—one of radical nonconformism. Emerson dismisses society as a "joint-stock company in which the members agree, for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." 5 Emerson's individualism went so far as to advocate nonconformism from all associations, including... | |
 | Robert Watson Gordon - 1992 - 342 pages
...(Chicago, 1898), 7 n.3_ Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was certainly read by Holmes, similarly observed: "The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance...not realities and creators, but names and customs"; "Self-reliance," in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 2 (Boston & New York, 1903), 50.... | |
 | Susan Winnett - 1993 - 263 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, "Self Reliance," in Selected Writings of Emerson, ed. Brooks Atkinson [New York:... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...pi. 2. 3 Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. . . . le, bk. 2, ch. 4 (1900). 10 Whenever there are in...uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882), US essayist, poel, philosopher. Essays. 'Sel (-Reliance" (First Series,... | |
 | Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 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. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. . . . No law can be sacred to me... | |
 | Carl Guarneri - 1991 - 548 pages
...Brook Farm, he defined society in necessary opposition to the individual — "a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater" — and disclaimed any personal responsibility for social problems. In "New England Reformers" he acknowledged... | |
 | Paul Morrison - 1996 - 188 pages
..."guardians of the faith" (CP 30), the liberal cult of self-reliance: "Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. ... It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."53... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...members" — Emerson warns that in truth we are not a society at all but rather a "joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater" (Essays, 261). By Emerson's account, the stultifying effects of this pervasive fascination with property... | |
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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. 
