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Europe (search for this): chapter 10
pled for lack of a philosopher; and Emerson's influence has always stood in need of more animal life as a vehicle to float it towards mankind. Let us review the points at which the careers of the two men touched each other; remembering all the time that any age is a unity, that all men who live in it are members of each other, and that the Unconscious is the important part of life. Emerson, after the loss of his first wife, followed by a breakdown in health and a year of gloomy travel in Europe, returned to Boston in 1833, a frail man of thirty, with a theological training, the tastes of a recluse, and an immense, unworldly ambition. To live in a village, to write in his journal, to walk in the woods and ruminate, --such was to be his existence. The organic reticence of Emerson has all but concealed the strong current of purpose that ran beneath the apparent futility of his external life. IHe was indeed a man of iron; and both he and Garrison might be compared to Ignatius Loyol
Garrison (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Chapter 9: Garrison and Emerson. These two men were almost exactly the same age; for Emerson was born in 1803 and Garrison in 1805. The precocity of Garrison, however, who became one of the figure-heads of his day at the age of twenty-four, and the tardy, inward development of Emerson, who did not become widely known till almost twenty years later, seem to class them in separate generations. Each of the men was a specialist of the extremest kind; Garrison, devoted to the visible and particular evils of his times, Emerson, seeking always the abstraction, and able to see the facts before his face only by the aid of general laws; Garrison all heart, Emerson all head; Garrison determined to remake the world, Emerson convinced that he must keep his eyes on the stars and wait for his message. Each of these men was, nevertheless, twin to the other. Their spirit was the same, and the influence of each was a strand in the same reaction, a cry from the same abyss. Emerson, no less th
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
the shadow of his great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for it and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of what are called brilliant men, accomplished men, men of high station, a President of the United States, Senators, men of eloquent speech, but men without self-respect, without character, and it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent, even a repute for honesty, all count for nothing. Emerson next discovers that Webster (formerly And again: Yet the lovers of liberty may with reason tax the coldness and indifferentism of scholars and literary men. They are lovers of liberty in Greece and Rome and in the English Commonwealth, but they are lukewarm lovers of the liberty of America in 1854. The Universities are not, as in Hobbes's time, the core of rebellion, no, but the seat of inertness. We find no avoidance of the word slavery in this address. Every other word seems to be Slavery, Slavery! A man who steals another m
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
him as proofs of folly and the devil in the objector, and, under that screen, if he gets a rotten egg or two, yet his name sounds through the world and he is praised and praised. Any one who has followed May and Thompson through good and evil report, who has felt the heat and depth of their devotion to truth, must almost wince at seeing what effect a visit from them produced upon the chill-blooded young parson who sat in his meager study, reading his threadbare library in the village of Concord. We are brought to see by such anecdotes as this that Anti-slavery was a sort of special illumination. The greatest saints lived without an understanding of Abolition till, suddenly one day, Abolition broke out in their hearts and made them miserable. Abolition was a disease — the disease caused by the flooding of withered natures with new health. The infection jumped from one man to another. Genius and talent had nothing to do with it; learning and piety seem to have been immune to
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
phy. The thing which he did develop during these years, and while he was thinking a good deal about Garrison, and wondering what was the matter with Garrison,--the outcome of Emerson's reflections upon Garrison,--was that picture of the Just Man which runs through Emerson's thought; that theory of the perfect man, the Overman, the Apollonian saint, who accomplishes all reforms without using any visible means. In 1844, Emerson gives us a glimpse of this Overman in an essay entitled The New England reformers. The essay records a lack of progress in Emerson's thought, and shows that he had as yet no idea of the difference between Anti-slavery and the other many and clamoring reforms of the day. Like the essay on The times it contains beautiful ideas, but betrays ignorance of this particular matter-Anti-slavery. The man who shall be born, he says, whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life, with the man within man; shal
Wordsworth (search for this): chapter 10
on kept founding Societies which gave him endless trouble. Emerson's early and unobtrusive retirement from office shows us an amusing exchange of roles between the two; for in this instance Emerson, the recluse, knew the world better than Garrison, the man of action. But Emerson knew the world only in spots. His diary shows us a mind that is almost callow. Never numbers, he writes, but the simple and wise shall judge, not the Whartons and Drakes, but some divine savage like Webster, Wordsworth, and Reed, whom neither the town nor the college ever made, shall say that we shall all believe. How we thirst for a natural thinker. Emerson's natural thinking leads him to collocate the names of great men very unexpectedly and somewhat mysteriously. Entries like the foregoing seem more like the work of a man of twenty than of thirty. We must note in the following not only the lack of emotional life which is implied: we must note also its perfect intellectual poise. You affirm, say
Edward W. Emerson (search for this): chapter 10
ead; Garrison determined to remake the world, Emerson convinced that he must keep his eyes on the sbadly crippled for lack of a philosopher; and Emerson's influence has always stood in need of more to Ignatius Loyola in respect to their will. Emerson writes in his journal in 1834: The phibetter than Garrison, the man of action. But Emerson knew the world only in spots. His diary showowever, no condescension in either passage. Emerson was the last man in the world to feel condesc word, for a martyr of an unpopular Cause. Dr. Emerson cites this episode twice over, once in the ime shall come when the fire shall descend on Emerson and he shall tear his mantle and put dust upo his veins, you must turn to the address that Emerson delivered at Cooper Union in New York on Marcry, slavery! Now it seems to me clear that Emerson had, from the beginning, been dealing with sortheless, the small, inner, silver trumpet of Emerson caught and sounded the same note; and it cont[58 more...]
Socrates (search for this): chapter 10
the intellectual, and that Jesus was the perfect man. I bow in reverence unfeigned before that benign man. I know more, hope more, am more, because he has lived. But, if you tell me that in your opinion, he hath fulfilled all the conditions of man's existence, carried out to the utmost, at least by implication, all man's powers, I suspend my assent. I do not see in him cheerfulness: I do not see in him the love of natural science: I see in him no kindness for art: I see in him nothing of Socrates, of Laplace, of Shakespeare. The perfect man should remind us of all great men. Do you ask me if I would rather resemble Jesus than any other man? If I should say Yes, I should suspect myself of superstition. This passage is like the stalk of the pieplant without the sap. But nature had gifts in her lap for the youth that penned it; and imagination can detect some sort of power even here. Here is at least a creature who will test other persons by himself, and not himself by others.
William Lloyd Garrison (search for this): chapter 10
e men was a specialist of the extremest kind; Garrison, devoted to the visible and particular evils ore his face only by the aid of general laws; Garrison all heart, Emerson all head; Garrison determissolvents. With Emerson, this was idea; with Garrison, it was function. Garrison does, he knows notGarrison does, he knows not what — he talks foaming, he cannot fit two conceptions together; but he is generally, and on the whhe eternal, and his mind was a unity; whereas Garrison was a professional agitator and his mind was it, is due to his artistic instinct; just as Garrison's blatancy about his mission — the same missiery. But he looked out of his window and saw Garrison and the Abolitionists shouting in the streetse times in 1841, is in reality a lecture upon Garrison and Garrison's multitudinous causes. The ramerson. I believe that had it not been for Garrison and his crew, Mr. Emerson would have seen not, and while he was thinking a good deal about Garrison, and wondering what was the matter with Garri[24 more...]<
Theodore Parker (search for this): chapter 10
ion, and able to see the facts before his face only by the aid of general laws; Garrison all heart, Emerson all head; Garrison determined to remake the world, Emerson convinced that he must keep his eyes on the stars and wait for his message. Each of these men was, nevertheless, twin to the other. Their spirit was the same, and the influence of each was a strand in the same reaction, a cry from the same abyss. Emerson, no less than Garrison, was the voice of Abolition, and the dying Theodore Parker names him as a prophet. I should sum up Garrison's whole life-work in one word, Courage. And I cannot find another word, except Courage,to sum up Emerson. The function of Garrison was to crack up, to dissolve. He cannot bear to see two men agree about anything, he cannot tolerate assent; toleration is the enemy, toleration is the sin of the age. In like manner is Emerson a sphinx who puts questions to his age. His thought cannot be understood without a thorough pulling-down of ext
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