 Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 245by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...own. An early line from "Self-Reliance" says this well: A man should learn to detect and watch the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from...dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. (CW2, 27) For now, focus on the final line. The worry is that instead of embracing our own illuminations,... | |
 | Michael Taylor, Helmut Schreier, Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr., Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr. - 2008 - 248 pages
...his Emersonian essay, Construction and Criticism'. As Emerson says in his essay on "Self-Reliance": "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within." ... But it is not easy to detect and watch the gleams of light that flash from within. Education and... | |
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