...bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of...thousand-fold Relief Societies; though I confess with shame 1 sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood...

...bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be, but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. (Essays, 263) In "An Emerson Mood," Stanley Cavell has explored Emerson's transformation of religious...

...Review quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous self-criticism: "I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, but it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." Sociological analyses of the "floating population of all large modern cities" showed the homeless including...

...bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of...the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by 1 shall have the manhood to withhold. Seen by some as Emerson's essential lack of liberal or Christian...

...dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. . . . [T]hough I confess with shame I sometimes succumb...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. (CW 2: 30-31) Activism on behalf of suffering others "a thousand miles off" is proof of a false relation...

...with incentive. Emerson knew this: "Your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at colleges of fools, the building of meetinghouses to the vain...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." No wonder the victims of Whittier must collapse into Dr. Peale's smarmy embrace. What a grisly world...

...bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. 2 Though his phrasing is extreme, Emerson is expressing widely held views. Many of his contemporaries...

...bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. It's roughly the last third of this quotation (from "Then again, do not tell me" through "I shall have...

...bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Updike at once replies, "A doctrine of righteous selfishness is here propounded." Bloom takes a little...

...institutionalized charity, Emerson asked, "Are they my poor?" and denied that he should contribute: "[T]hough I confess with shame I sometimes succumb...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." In 1839, he had not yet attained sufficient self-reliance to resist even the simple request for charity....