...every nan. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius....They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. lnnl-g fnrward: the eyes of man are set, in Jhis forehead: not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates....

...Hence the letter killeth: the danger of script is prescription. The function of genius is to create: "if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his." Use your own creative moments creatively; when you "can read God directly, the hour is too precious...

...every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius....forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius creates. To create, — to create, — is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be, if the man...

...in the world, of value, is the active soul. The book, the college, the institution of any kind, 103 stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good,...They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. Books are for the scholar's idle times. They serve us best when they aim, not to drill, but to create...

...he secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,but in being uninteresting. — BEAUTY + (jenius looks forward; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead; man hopes; genius Creates. — THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 1 he schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their...

...college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks...forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. . . . Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. ... In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended...

...instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.' • »*•••» 'Whatever talents" may be, if the man create not,...efflux of the Deity is not his; cinders and smoke there may be, but not flame.' Again, 'Only so much do I know, as I -have lived; instantly we know whose words...

...every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius....the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words;...

...every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius....forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not hi his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure...

...conception of the creative writer in those glowing lines in " The American Scholar " where Emerson writes : Genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his...the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame." And in the essay " Intellect " we find a full development of the distinction...