...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all spects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or ither to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write...own books; or rather, each generation for the next si ceeding. The books of an older period will not fit thisQ Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The...

...postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. . . . Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness...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...

...institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the best type of the influence of the past, and perhaps we shall get at the truth — learn the amount of this...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...

...Aristotle that seemed to rise coldly between themselves and Fayaway. "Each age," as Emerson shrewdly said, "must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." The statement aptly applies to the successive Lives of Melville from 1852 to 1892; it is just as pertinent...

...institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the best type of the influence of the past, and perhaps we shall get at the truth, — learn the amount of this...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...

...Religion auf den "external evidence" der Wundertaten Jesu. Cf. "The American Scholar", CW I, p. 56: "The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation - the act of thought, - is instantly transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was feit to be a divine man. Henceforth the...

...American Scholar" (1837) established the grounds for a national, popular American literature — "Each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."13 Marti's "Nuestra America" similarly provided a base for a national, Latin American literature...

...Transcendentalist anticipation of what I want to say in Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address on the American Scholar: "The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet...the act of thought, is transferred to the record. Instantly the book becomes noxious: the guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...

...only one aspect of his conception that knowledge needs to be up-to-date, continually newly created: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...The books of an older period will not fit this."** In "The American Scholar" *That movement had been established and promoted by Francis Calley Gray,...

...to being the cross-dressing Jim Backus than Jim Stark.) As Emerson put it in The American Scholar: The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also... as love of the hero corrupts into worship of...