...imbalance that many traditional critics ignore. Emerson does believe strongly in the power of individuals: "In yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all" (1969a, 55). But the powers of individuals are not separable from the powers of the group, of the culture...

...with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state. . . . The world is nothing, the man is all. ... In yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all. . . . This confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all...

...suddenly its doors open and out con thousand clowns, whooping and hollering and raising — Herb Gai It is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all. — Ralph Waldo Erne u treat individuals as they are, they will stay as they are, but u treat them...

...them in such essays as "Self-Reliance" ("Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string") and "The American Scholar" ("We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe"). Whitman sent them as a barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world. Thoreau spoke them in the quotation...

...have recalled Emerson's famous words to the American scholar, dating from 1837, but still pertinent: "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe" ("The American Scholar," I, 113). And in searching for an honest American style, Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance"...

...narrow You know this well, you who are also there — Hadcwijch II In yourself is the law of all nature. ..in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson thtough reason, ana then thtough direct transcendental perception. — Srimad...

...Reason stands for total insight, man as a form of God: "in yourself is the law of all nature [...] in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all" ("The American Scholar," SE: 103-104). The rhetoric of Reason, with which Coleridge had, despite all...

...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the foture. He must be a university of knowledges. ... We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame.—The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant— The mind of this country, tanght to aim at...

...a thousand years.1 And near the end: Mr. President and CJentlemen, this confidence in the unearthed might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy,...listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The sprit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, and tame. (p. 70) But if...

...challenge, echoes two of Emerson's famous declarations. In "The American Scholar," Emerson complained: "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame."^ In "The Poet," Emerson expanded his complaint: "We do not, with sufficient plainness, or sufficient...