...aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. . . . Independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts...good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. . . . But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted...

...human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts...genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you.7 In contrast, says Emerson, "the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As...

...human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts...on their merits, in the swift summary way of boys. . . . Who can thus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,...

...human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...

...human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...

...vacation we (meaning men) can recover the godlike innocence of boyhood. Independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts...on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys . . . But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness ... These are the voices which...

...human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...

...human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts...good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome ... But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted...

...human nature. A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts...on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys. . . . He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests: he gives an independent, genuine...

...facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys. . . . He cumbers himself never about consequences, about...verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. (259) In boyhood thrives what Emerson dubs "the aboriginal Self, on which a universal self-reliance...