...of universal individualism, but also the necessary superiority of American over European education. "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame."" Heaven keep us from such a charge. We will be bold: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with...

...Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man, belongs by all motives, by all prophesy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have...listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe." (CW l, 69). Der Schluss der Rede spricht die Paradoxie deutlich aus, die in der Verbindung des universalistischen...

...declared by Emerson in his oration The American Scholar in 1837. "We," said the stalwart American, "have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe....is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." But in no wise can Emerson be said to be the Jefferson of our intellectual independence. His is but...

...know all ; it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs by all motives, by all prophecy,...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too lon°o to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...