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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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Emerson and Self-reliance

George Kateb - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 278 pages
...60) To be sure, in the same essay Emerson goes the other way: Character is higher than intellect ... 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 the elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...
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Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - Philosophy - 2003 - 300 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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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliance

Kenneth Sacks - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 426 pages
...leads: "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 to think." It was Emerson's refusal to be more specific that so annoyed his foes and disappointed his friends....
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A Dream Too Wild: A Book of Meditations from the Writings of Ralph Waldo ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Devotional calendars - 2004 - 396 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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We Stand Before the Secret of the World: Traces Along the Pathway of ...

Paul Scott Derrick, Paul Scott - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 162 pages
...( hnraeter is higher ilian intellect I muling is ine lunciion. Living is Ine lunoiionary. I he BHUB retreats to its source. A great soul will be 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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Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue

Philip Cafaro - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 288 pages
...again: "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 to think." 14 In current terms, "The American Scholar" treats "virtue ethics": that half of ethics that concerns...
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A Place Not a Place: Reflection and Possibility in Museums and Libraries

David Carr - Art - 2006 - 180 pages
...character; it is a world where "Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....be strong to live, as well as strong to think.""' On what is the heroic character founded? "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars....
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Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue

Philip Cafaro - Philosophy - 2006 - 289 pages
...again: "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 to think." 14 In current terms, "The American Scholar" treats "virtue ethics": that half of ethics that concerns...
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - Political Science - 2008 - 228 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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Villages ; Cambridge commencement ; The White Mountains ; Channing ; Mutes ...

Harriet Martineau - Slavery - 1838 - 310 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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