...rather than that force in themselves which is the source of manifold and contradictory achievement. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...of thought, is transferred to the record. . . . The writer was a just and wise spirit; henceforward it is settled the book is perfect; as love of the hero...

...Emerson, American Scholar, in Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures 53, 56-57 (Joel Porte ed. 1983) ("Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...The books of an older period will not fit this"). 34. See Jim Sidanius et al., It's Not Affirmative Action, It's the Blacks: The Continuing Relevance...

...story Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his celebrated and seminal essay 'The American Scholar' (1837), wrote: 'Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.'13 And this desire to 'make it new' (in Ezra Pound's phrase) is no small part of the emphasis...

...See, for instance, Stuhr 1997, ix-x. 3. See Emerson's "American Scholar." There Emerson maintains: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this" (1837, 67). 4. See, for instance, Stuhr 1997, 75 and 2003, 184; O'Shea 2000, 17; Parker 1999, 212....