Howard Mumford Jones ✓

(1892–1980) literary scholar United States

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[Wikidata] U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English... | [Wikipedia] Howard Mumford Jones was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Michigan and later at Harvard University.

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• Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. Age
• If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed. Committed
• Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. American
• Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by… Acre
• Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. Always Easier
• I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. Conformity
• Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. Accounts
• When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William… American

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