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" Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act. Let the grandeur of justice shine in his affairs. Let the beauty of affection cheer his lowly... "
Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 94
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 383 pages
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Education, Volume 45

Education - 1925 - 666 pages
...men's transcripts of their reading."50 Though action with a scholar may be subordinate it is essential. "A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think."51 "The true scholar grudges every opportunity for action passed by as a loss of power. It is...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1926 - 412 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...
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Further Adventures in Essay Reading

Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - American essays - 1928 - 612 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...
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Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian ...

Stanley Cavell - Literary Collections - 1990 - 207 pages
...together: Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...
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The Emerson Museum: Practical Romanticism and the Pursuit of the Whole

Lee Rust Brown - History - 1997 - 306 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...
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The Moral Life of Children

Robert Coles - Family & Relationships - 1986 - 332 pages
...Emerson, in another age, who suggested that "character is higher than intellect," and who observed that "a great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think." 5 In his long lyric poem Paterson, William Carlos Williams constantly distinguishes between the intellect...
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The Moral Life of Children

Robert Coles - Family & Relationships - 1986 - 332 pages
...Emerson, in another age, who suggested that "character is higher than intellect," and who observed that "a great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think."5 In his long lyric poem Paterson, William Carlos Williams constantly distinguishes between...
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The American Studies Anthology

Richard P. Horwitz - History - 2001 - 420 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...
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