 We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not.  So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance - Page 22by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pagesFull view - About this book
 | University of North Dakota - 1917 - 414 pages
...us. We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battles of fate, where strength is born, we shun. We do not see that virtue is height and that a man or a company...cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. And in these words Emerson voices the belief which is the inspiration of social thought today: We think... | |
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