...intellectual confines of reigning paradigms and professional expectations. "Books," Emerson wrote, "are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read...precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings."38 Political theory has professionally arrived. Political theorists have demonstrated their...

...scholars idle times." When the Ametican could read God directly in nature and experience, the hour was "too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." Another person who showered praise on Whitman was William O'Connor, whose Harrington appeared that...

...Shakespearized now for two hundred years. . . . Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments . . . when he can read God directly, the hour is too precious...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." Fssays and Lectures, 58. But the idea is older than Emerson; a century before, Edward Young had written...

...perhaps below, ideas, in contrast to his German contemporaries. As he wrote in "The American Scholar," "Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments....precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings."20 Of course, Emerson's God was not the God of the theologians, but an immanent reality always...

...the importance of the text in a way that discouraged original thought: "Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man...instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times" (p. 58). Reading supplants and preempts the possibilities of new writing and reading, or as Emerson...

...that he read for what he termed "lustres." Moreover, even for the scholar, he thought books were for idle times: "When he can read God directly, the hour...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings," Emerson writes in "The American Scholar." "But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,...

...Perhaps he recalled something Emerson had written : "Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." Could this be the same Emerson, old and weary and smothered in cotton-wool by friends, who worshipped...

...the Phi Beta Kappa address at Harvard in 1837 that older languages of education are of little use: "Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments....are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read 163 God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings"...

...beliefs, only narrow interpretations of them" (122-23). 19. Compare Emerson in "The American Scholar": "When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings" (89). 20. His other items of baggage included his plant press, a few toilet articles, a change of underwear,...

...which readers do not allow themselves to be subdued by what they read. They remain their own seers. "Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings."13 Emerson and "The American Scholar" The clue to Emerson's extravagances, in this part of...