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" Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit, not to be reckoned one character — - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the... "
Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page 344
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pages
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The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America

Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...words of his "American Scholar": Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit — not to be reckoned one character — not to yield that...thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong. . . . Not so, brothers and friends — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet;...
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The American Studies Anthology

Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit — not to be reckoned one character — not to yield that...geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own...
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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliance

Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that...geographically, as the north, or the south. Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our...
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American Social and Political Thought: A Reader

Andreas Hess - 2003 - 504 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit - not to be reckoned one character - not to yield that peculiar...geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends - please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own...
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; - not to be reckoned one character; - not to yield that...the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we 26 belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and...
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The Age of American Unreason

Susan Jacoby - 2008 - 384 pages
...world, not to be a unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar truit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand . . . Not so, brothers and triends — please God, ours shall not be so." NOTES CHAPTER ONE; THE WAY...
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