From: "Paul Murphy" <Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com> Subject: Re: Emerson on complicity Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:14 +0200 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. thanks for this quote. I studied under Dr Clive Bush (now Professor Clive Bush at the Kings College London) and his course American Cultural Synthesis at Warwick University. Read all the American greats, Lewis Mumford, Emerson, Twain, Henry Adams. I have an essay on Twain from that period I could send you, on 'A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur' a superb satire. PM ----- Original Message ----- From: Scribe1865-AT-aol.com To: nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:25 PM Subject: Emerson on complicity Kev: "resigning ourselves to the status quo necessarily means saying things 'ain't so bad'" ____________________ Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but redeemers and benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort let us advance on Chaos and the Dark.... -Emerson [excerpt from Self-Reliance]
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but redeemers and benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort let us advance on Chaos and the Dark.... -Emerson [excerpt from Self-Reliance]