...Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own 'hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, 10 and for sensual indulgence....

...sail onward in the present to the future. And he concludes in summary : We will walk on our own feet : we will work with our own hands : we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The...

...one poet's attempt to follow Emerson's declaration of independence: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."2 History tells us that art need never justify itself. It will endure on its own merits or will...

.... Not so, brothers and friends — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.50 If we will just watch the individual pennies, Emerson seemed to say, then the societal pounds...

...instincts, and there abide," the individual act would be the invention of society, the invention of America: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."60 Emerson thus indelibly stamped religious thought in America by his proclamation that the wholeness...

...scientists rapidly achieved independence from their European forefathers: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."' A similar cultural revolution occurred among painters. By mid-decade, the Hudson This paper is based...

...association as action, as the movement of an entire nation as one body: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds," he writes. "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by...

...individuals are not separable from the powers of the group, of the culture in which the individual resides: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (55 ). It's this connection between individual consciousness and national or public change and...

...wrote these books." Coming out of the libraries, Emerson's new scholars "will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands, we will speak our own minds."54 More unwarranted arrogance, Norton and Bowen would say, while "the likeminded," Emerson's...

...inner freedom, which would create a new type of human being. In his essay "Self-Reliance" he writes, "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." In the sense that he saw in America the potential for a new Eden and a new humanity, then, Emerson...