 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 páginas
...makes a similar point in "The American Scholar" (1837) when he claims that it is the scholar's duty "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (W, 1: 100). Emerson seems to imagine himself doing what Carlyle asks him to do in 1844. It is no wonder... | |
 | Sigrid Bauschinger - 1998 - 238 páginas
...should lead a different life from that of the solitary loner whom the world associates with scholars. "The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."60 To be sure, by "facts" Emerson here refers to quotidian events. The discussion then... | |
 | Arthur D. Austin - 1998 - 235 páginas
...scholarship served a teaching function, the collection of facts to inculcate students with morals. "The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amid appearances." The scholar "must be a university of knowledge." Shortly after the Civil War, state... | |
 | Dorothy J. Hale - 1998 - 264 páginas
...Selfconscious manhood might be another name for "Man Thinking." Like the Emersonian scholar whose office it is "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (Oration, 19), Du Bois's race leaders begin with self-improvement. According to this model, social... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 páginas
...knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. Samuel Johnson, The Idler (17 5») 17 The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. RW Emerson, The American Scholar (1837) is The humblest painter is a true scholar, and the best of... | |
 | David Fideler - 2000 - 482 páginas
...their integrity, human promise, and essential relatedness to the animating fire of the Divine Mind. "The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."47 Two Platonic Voices Like ThomasJohnson, Ralph \ValdoEmerson found in Neoplatonic idealism... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 páginas
...priest, part prophet, and part poet. His role, he announced toward the end of "The American Scholar," was "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (CW, 1:62). This definition of a highly social role, a role as a leader, a shaper of public opinion,... | |
 | James W. Sire - 2000 - 268 páginas
...other. . . . Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary."20 Ultimately the role of Man Thinking is "to cheer, to raise and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."21 So it is that intellectuals become the high priests of a brave new world of American... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 páginas
...than the learning derived from books and teachers. And once Man Thinking has been created, his duties "may all be comprised in self-trust. The office of...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances." Anticipating that society, especially educated society, will scorn the scholar who follows his own... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 páginas
...calls (American) scholars, to whom he had given warning in his earlier, most famous address to them: The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. . . . Long he must stammer in his speech; often forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must... | |
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And labor is everywhere welcome ; always we are invited to work ; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. 
