...friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country, from town to town, like an eagle or swallow through the air.102 In der Vorlesung "The Young American" - gehalten am 7. Februar 1844 vor...

...magnanimous view of America's "useful arts" in serving its citizens and ministering to their needs. "The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him," Emerson observed, before he proceeded to envision a world in which everyday chores are simplified by...

...arts are reproductions or new combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors. ... By the aggregate of these aids, how is the face of...changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon!" (Emerson, Selected Writings, 191). Muir's outlook is quite different. 35. For a clear and concise discussion...

...differently than he defines a (possessible) commodity. In Nature's chapter on "Commodity," Emerson says that "The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him. . . . the human race run on his errands . . . the human race read and write of all that happens, for...

...friction, [man] paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a shipload of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country,...changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon!" (12). Or again: "What disputing of prices, what reckonings of interest,—and all to form the Hand...

...friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a shipload of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country,...town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air" (6-7). The train loses its association with the mundane and becomes airborne, allowing the passenger...

...friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country,...changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon! In the decade before 1844 Emerson repeatedly draws upon the facts of technological progress to illustrate...

...incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man" (12). From this point of view, . . . how is the face of the world changed, from the era...ships, canals, bridges, built for him. He goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands; to the book-shop, and the human race read and write...

...University Press, 1980. Vol. 3. S. 565, 49-52. 438 Vgl. Marx, The Machine in the Garden. S. 230. try, from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air." 439 Emersons Glaube an die mögliche Harmonisierung seines technokratischen Wunschdenkens mit den Kräften...

...realizes the fable of Aeolus'sbag, and carries two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. . . . The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him" (CW 1:11-12). While this passage might sound like Jacksonian propaganda (and that is surely intentional),...