“ when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (1838). copy citation
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Source | The American Scholar |
Topic | fear energy |
Date | 1838 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_American_Scholar |
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“as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in,—is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? Thistime, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with joy some of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art, through philosophy and science, through church and state.”
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