...us, allows for personal growth, gives us something to say. A merely literary life is no life at all. "The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power." And again: "Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary....

...not less concerned with action than [Benjamin] Franklin. Not unlike the indefatigable Poor Richard, "The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power." 28 Jehlen's Emerson looks inward in order to look outward, and while this moves us closer to my conception...

...dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action which he can partake. It is pearls and rubies to his...exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. Lest we believe that Emerson's idealism carries him beyond the world's reality this eloquent celebration...

...they must be recluses, valetudinarians. On the contrary, Emerson declares for action in the world. "The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power."16 In saying as much, Emerson had to resist his own disposition. He was not, by nature, given...

...our day, we repair to books, the lamps kindled by that light, we must be active. Since Man Thinking "grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power," there can be no "true scholar" without "the heroic mind." The "preamble of thought, the transition...

...ships. " I do not see," says Emerson, " how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake....The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by as a loss of power." Kossuth called himself " a tempest-tossed soul, whose eyes have been...

...us, allows for personal growth, gives us something to say. A merely literary life is no life at all. "The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power." And again: "Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary....

...extended my being, my dominion. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake....discourse. Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructers in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by,...

...which I continually cite: "I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake. It is pearls and rubies to his discourse" (CW1, 59). As noted before, genius is praxical, demanding expression, and while thoughts and journals...