"Emerson was the chief figure in the American……" — Howard Mumford Jones
"Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history."
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8 Quotes by Howard Mumford Jones
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Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
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If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is…
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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
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Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except…
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Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies…
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When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was…
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but…
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think.…
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's…
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