...his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages af ter we have a Roman Empire; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." „History itself is best studied in biography. lndeed, history is biography — collective humanity...

...chiefs of the state." So too Emerson believed "An institution is but the lengthened shadow of the men; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." Any one who is inclined to question the important functions of the leaders in the social group need...

...offers an almost perfect model of what such a book should be. It illustrates Emerson's saying that ' All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons,' by condensing the political history of England for a generation into the Tmelvt English Statesmen :...

...in one sense the history of the men associated in its work. Emerson says somewhat unqualifiedly that "all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." The members of the college and alumni have always taken pride in expressing in unmistakable language...

...and Fox, Methodism and Wesley, Abolition and Clarkson. Then he sums his thought with the following: "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons " (' Self-reliance'). Now personality is a mystic, — almost, we may say, an elemental fact in nature,...

...observes, " Universal History is the History of Great Men;" or in Emerson's equally profound language, "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." So, if we try to understand the past history of Christianity in Japan, we cannot avoid perusing the...

...mysticism, and poetry, the answer can hardly remain doubtful: it comes in the defiant dictum of Emerson: 'All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.' This is the triumphant consciousness of individuality which belongs to the man of genius, and even...

...book "Heroes and Hero-worship," to illustrate the theory; and Emerson, the American essayist, said, "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." When we say, as Carlyle said, that "Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in...

...the essay and mark the epigrams that seem especially brilliant. " Thy love afar is spite at home. " " All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." " If we live truly we shall see truly." " An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." Make...