...take a few sentences from Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address: " The spirit of the American freeman is 44 already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. . . . Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds,...

...might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of tbe_Ainerican freeman -is. .alr^ead^ susp_ecied-io be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice...

...schijnt hem in de dingen van het leven wonderlijk onzelfstandig. Emerson beklaagde het al in 1837: „the spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame" l). Een zin voor conformiteit, een vrees om van het goede model af te wijken, beheerscht de gedragingen....

...declared by Emerson in his oration The American Scholar in 1837. " We," said the stalwart American, "have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe....is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." But in no wise can Emerson be said to be the Jefferson of our intellectual independence. His is but...

...might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame: 105 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent,...

...independence. The orator did not spare his fellowcountrymen. ' We have listened too much,' he says, ' to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. ' The young men of promise, he says, are discouraged and...

...man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state — tends to true union as well as greatness. . . . The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. . . . There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise,...

...might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See al20 ready the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon...

...rose." And here also, among the cultured and intellectual, he finds indolence, decency, and complacency. "The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. . . . See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats...

...preoccupied with many things, and compassed about by so great a cloud of witnesses. As Emerson said, in 1837, "the spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." Yet, even at this, his summons to cultural freedom found no ready response outside New England. Domestic...