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Title: Emerson, poet and thinker
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cary, Elisabeth Luther, 1867-1936 Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Authors, American
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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jBmcvBon Hbroab. 161 and spirit. As they trample on nationalities to re-produce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia,so they fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, ofreligion,—ghosts which they cannot lay; and havingattempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soulitself in English broadcloth and gaiters, they aretormented with fear that herein lurks a force thatwill sweep their system away. The artists say:Nature puts them out; the scholars have becomeunideal. They parry earnest speech with banter andlevity; they laugh you down, or they change thesubject. *The fact is, they say over their wine,* all that about liberty, and so forth, is gone by; itwont do any longer. The practical and comfort-able oppress them with inexorable claims, and thesmallest fraction of power remains for heroismand poetry. Yet no doubt an opposite picture equally truemight have been drawn of the English in Emersonstime, of which he himself might have asked as didthe British auditor concerning his disco

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