...Cambridge (Massachusetts), August 31, 1837. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. THE SCHOLAR AND THE WORLD. 205 of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complacent Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...

...chapter with his admonition to his young countrymen forty years ago.1 ' Public and private avarice makes the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. See already the tragic consequence. The mind 1 'The American Scholar.' An Oration delivered...

...chapter with his admonition to his young countrymen forty years ago.1 ' Public and private avarice makes the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. See already the tragic consequence. The mind 1 'The American Scholar.' An Oration delivered...

...Europe. (The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tama Tublie and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.\ The scholar is decent. iudolentt_c^,niplaiaaiit. See alrejidj tlin trnpn finmrrpirnrr The, mind of this country, taught to...

...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...

...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...

...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...

...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...

...muses of Europe. The spirit of the Ameriean frceman is already suspeeted to be timid, imitative, tame.J Public and private avarice make the air we breathe...fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. Sce already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objeets, eats upon...

...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...