...expense of that fine individualism of the Oxonian who, like Emerson's scholar, "learns to detect the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of firmament of bards and sages." In general, the disposition to separate sharply the debating from the...

...Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men did, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...

...Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it...

...within themselves. "Trust thyself," says Ralph Waldo Emerson, "every heart vibrates to that iron string. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages." The man who would accomplish exceptional things should...

...all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of bards and sages." We have seen several examples of how this method works in natural science...

...the orator himself realized all that he was saying; or whether he simply followed Emerson's counsel : "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages." Consciously or unconsciously, he reflected the Infinite...

...or implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact in...

...or implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, " there is a deeper fact in...

...or implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact in...

...or implicit, in any one of his great passages: — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...light which flashes across his mind from within"; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact in...