...admonished to stay at home, to put tself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes ibroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men. We nust go alone. I like the silent church before the service >egins, better than any preaching. How far...

...docility to our own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches. But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor...stay at home, to put itself in communication with the Thor and Woden, courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done in our smooth times...

...prepared through soul to soul communion; again becoming faithful and loyal to the Keeper of the Temple. ("I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching." Emerson) In the light of His supreme presence will I ever walk. I am susceptible to Divine truths....

...the wall. ... To be great is to be misunderstood. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. All men plume themselves...

...self-sacrifice. Second, it is true that Emerson makes a plea for a certain degree of solitariness: "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching" (SR, 41). But he pleads for solitariness so that we may have real community, without the debilitating...

...directness and candor does promote greater honesty and openness in the community. Ghapter 15 Spirituality I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Michael really likes the community aspect of basketball. He likes...

...Easter-Day, VIII (1850) 19 Worship is transcendent wonder. Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, 20 1 like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. RW Emerson, Essays, ii (1844) 21 Come all to church, good people', — Oh, noisy bells, be dumb: I...

...Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society" (E, 279); "[The mob-mentality] goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men" (E, 272). 1H Foreignness and unhealthiness, metaphorically speaking, are equivalent symptoms of a general...

...between rich and poor gave rise to another ambivalence. In "Self-reliance" he wrote that the "mob" that "goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men" repelled him (cw2:41). Jacksonian democracy was "nonsense" propped up by "public opinion" (JMN 3 :...

...Emerson says, "is within." Instead of putting ourselves "in communication with the internal ocean," we go "abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men." "We must go alone," Emerson insists, even if it means a break from our accustomed ways. If we don't follow the dictates...