“ A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (1838). copy citation
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Source | The American Scholar |
| Topic | perception discovery |
| Date | 1838 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_American_Scholar |
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“In contrast with their writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic. This writing is blood-warm. Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote. The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients. There is one man of genius, who has done much for this philosophy of life, whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated;—Imean Emanuel Swedenborg.”
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