...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,...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit thisj^ Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the...

...author remains immortal and cannot die." Richard DeBury— Philobibon. Ch. 1, 21. EC Thomas' trans. "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." — Emerson. PERSONALS Miss Anna Anderson, formerly of the Chicago Public Library, has been added to...

...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...

...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,...will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. 20 The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is transferred to the...

...proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing. * * * Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is instantly transferred to the record. * * * The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, always...

...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...

...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,...