Nature, Addresses and LecturesThe Minerva Group, Inc., 2001 - 376 páginas This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...see what one brave man, what one great thought executed might effect. I see that the reason of the distrust of the practical man in all theory, is his inability to perceive the means whereby we work. Look, he says, at the tools with which this world of yours is to be built. As we cannot make a planet, with atmosphere, rivers, and forests, by means of the best carpenters' or engineers' tools, with chemist's laboratory and smith's forge to boot, --so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be. But the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist, --not by the men or materials the statesman uses, but by men transfigured and raised above themselves by the power of principles. To princiA. Bronson Alcott pies something else is possible that transcends all the power of expedients. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who, in a few years, from a small and mean beginning, established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example. They did they knew not what. The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch for a troop of Roman cavalry. The women fought like men, and conquered the Roman men. They were miserably equipped, miserably fed. They were Temperance troops. There was neither brandy nor flesh needed to feed them. They conquered Asia, and Africa, and Spain, on barley. The Caliph Omar's walking-stick struck more terror into those who saw it than another man's sword.1 His diet was barley bread; his sauce was sa |
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Introduction | 9 |
NATURE | 13 |
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR | 81 |
AN ADDRESS | 117 |
LITERARY ETHICS | 149 |
THE METHOD OF NATURE | 181 |
MAN THE REFORMER | 215 |
LECTURE ON THE TIMES | 245 |
THE CONSERVATIVE | 277 |
THE TRANSCENDENTALIST | 309 |
THE YOUNG AMERICAN | 341 |
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