...Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind 31 from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without...

...gleams of a world in which we do not live" (JMN 5:270). Later, in "Self-Reliance," we will be told that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards or sages" (E&L 259). In the finale of Nature, following...

...of 'Self-Reliance' (no more famous that it is unknown, to Benjamin for example), also about reading: 'A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages'? Doesn't Emerson confirm this advice in his essay 'Experience', when the idea of 'persisting to read...

...Plato and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it...

...nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner" — and the most noble achievements of the mature adult.35 "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within," he writes, "more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages."36 In other words, intuition...

...Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. (Complete Writings 138) Emerson believed that a pure light could be "detected" from "within" the soul....

...Judgment." (CW 2, 27). Selbstkultur bedeutet in dieser Hinsicht Kultivierung der eigenen Intuition: „A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." Allerdings wird im Lauf des Textes in einem subtilen Perspektivwechsel vom Individuum zur Gemeinschaft...

...your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.'10 But it would be a mistake to assume that Emerson's praise of individual freedom was merely...

...anyone not speaking the words of Jesus. CHAPTER TWELVE I'm right... No, I'm Right. How Do You Tell? "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...of light which flashes across his mind from within, " —Emerson "All a man's ways seem right to him, but the Lord weighs the heart" —Proverbs 21:2 he...

...whose lives have been lives of accomplishment and service for their fellow-men. Emerson, who said: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across Ms mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without...