Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act... Emerson: Political Writings - Página 14editado por - 2008Pré-visualização limitada - Acerca deste livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 páginas
...thought, 10 that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. is Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 páginas
...for nothing but to inspire. It is absurd to make fetishes out of the literature of the Past, for " each age, it is found, must write its own books ;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." No, let us learn to walk on our own feet, let us work with our own hands, let us speak our own minds.... | |
| 1916 - 798 páginas
...them. There came mockingly to my mind a sentence read several times with high-school classes: "Each age must write its own books; or rather each generation, for the next succeeding." I remembered how heartily we applauded the idea and how modem we felt ourselves in studying the plea... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1913 - 264 páginas
...quality, of which the first has little end cadence, and the second tends to prolong the closing clauses : "Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness...the act of creation, — the act of thought — is instantly transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man. Henceforth the... | |
| John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1915 - 422 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books." And to these words we might very well add, "each type of people must produce its own literature." Though... | |
| John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1915 - 462 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, In »H respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own book*" And to these words we might very well add, "each type of people must produce its own literature."... | |
| 1916 - 766 páginas
...them. There came mockingly to my mind a sentence read several times with high-school classes: "Each age must write its own books; or rather each generation, for the next succeeding." I remembered how heartily we applauded the idea and how modern we felt ourselves in studying the plea... | |
| University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1923 - 668 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."99 »Jour. DC, 114. M Natural History of Intellect: Country Life, 157. 97 Essays I, 269-70.... | |
| Denton Jaques Snider - 1921 - 398 páginas
...the form of "literature, art, institutions." Great is the Book, but it has a very insidious peril : "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...act of thought — is transferred to the record." Hence the letter killeth: the danger of script is prescription. The function of genius is to create:... | |
| Niels Bøgholm - 1922 - 272 páginas
...forholdet mellem ord og virkelighed taler Emerson fra et helt andet synspunkt i The American Scholar: The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation — the act of thought, is instantly transferred to the record .... the book is perfect .... Instantly the book becomes noxious.... | |
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