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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 Water Cure Journal and Hygienic Magazine - Page 76
1848
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...private, but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men, and put them in fear. These are the voices which we hear in solitude,' but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Sgciet^ everywhere is in conspiracy august, f,hfi ma.nhnnd of every one of itfl mp™K'"'° Society...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...men and put them in fear. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and 20 inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere...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,...
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Southern Literary Studies

1927 - 208 pages
...created the character of Robinson Crusoe. Emerson became the philosopher of individualism when he said: "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,...
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Southern Literary Studies: A Collection of Literary, Biographical, and Other ...

Charles Alphonso Smith - 1927 - 208 pages
...created the character of Robinson Crusoe. Emerson became the philosopher; of individualism when he said: "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,...
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A College Grammar

Mason Long - 1928 - 344 pages
...sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. —WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 11. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint...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,...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort let us advance on Chaos and the Dark These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint...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,...
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Restless Nation: Starting Over in America

James M. Jasper - 2009 - 328 pages
...and he equates society with commercial society: "The [inner] voices which we hear in solitude . . . grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world....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,...
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The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature

Marianne Noble - 2000 - 240 pages
...reveals the threat that social intercourse poses to selves in the Puritan tradition when he writes, "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." Gloria Anzaldua offers useful metaphors for conceptualizing the distinction; she distinguishes between...
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Socratic Seminars in the Block

Wanda H. Ball, Pam Brewer - 2000 - 182 pages
...reader to recognize? Does he give men any advice? What does he mean in paragraph three when he says, "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members"? What would Emerson like to see in a man? Closing Questions: Consider the people teens your age admire....
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A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...without this independence, the poet-scholar would shrink into the bookworm, the pedant, and the parrot. "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members," he would say in "Self Reliance" (CW, 2:29). But while Emerson placed absolute independence of mind...
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