...vagabond, and the universal system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate, and what is imitation but a travelling of the mind ? * This brief passage was dealt with by a number of well-educated people,...

...whereby "the intellect is vagabond." Even at home, "We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste;...our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments" (81-82). And finally "As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society"...

...when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is our imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste;...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. . . . Insist on yourself; never imitate." 6 Characteristically,...

...Aethenaeum in einem Bericht aus dem Jahre 1829 mit dem Titel „America and American Writers" mit 80 „We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling...mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our tastes, nur whole minds lean, and follow the Fast and the Distant, as the eyes of a maid follow her...

...is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have...

...idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans."40 He continues, "We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. . . . And why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic...

...is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have...

...Emerson das gesamte intellektuelle Leben in Amerika befallen, darin eingeschlossen das Bildungssystem. „We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling...with foreign Ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Fast and Distant." (CW 2, 47). Für Robert Weisbuch sind dies Kennzeichen...

...is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have...

...from the true self, corrupting the intellect: "We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste;...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant" (p. 198). Imitating exemplars is not only a counterfeit...