...thought, that shall be as efficicnt, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporarics, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...own books; or rather, each generation for the next suecceding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischicf. The...

...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,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward...

...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,...not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacreduess which attaches to the act of creation — the act of thought — is transferred to the record....

...sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. " Each age must write its own books, or, rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become an object of idolatrous regard....

...as persuasively as Emerson the contemporary did to the nineteenth. Emerson himself says, " Each age must write its own books, or rather each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not suit this," and further, " When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become...

...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,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward...

...shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to Ihe second age. Each age, it is found, must write its...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward...

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...truth. In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishablcness of the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward...

...sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. "Each age must write its own books, or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become an object of idolatrous regard....