...instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.' • »*•••» 'Whatever talents" may be, if the man create not,...is not his; cinders and smoke there may be, but not flame.' Again, 'Only so much do I know, as I -have lived; instantly we know whose words are loaded...

...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with . Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own...lofty trees Wave not less proudly that their ancestors flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions,...

...conception of the creative writer in those glowing lines in " The American Scholar " where Emerson writes : Genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his...his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame." And in the essay " Intellect " we find a full development of the distinction that Coleridge...

...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not hi his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure...

...conception of the creative writer in those glowing lines in " The American Scholar " where Emerson writes : Genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efQux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame." And in the essay...

...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man creates not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not...

...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they...genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man creates not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet...

...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...down. They look backward and not forward. But genius always looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius...

...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions,...

...the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward...forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. . . . There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse, a valetudinarian,—as...