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" But such inveterate and persistent optimism, though it may show only its pleasant side in such a character as Emerson's, is dangerous doctrine for a people. It degenerates into fatalistic indifference to moral considerations, and to personal responsibilities;... "
Letters of Charles Eliot Norton - Page 506
by Charles Eliot Norton - 1913
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Fifty Years of American Idealism: The New York Nation, 1865-1915

Gustav Pollak - American essays - 1915 - 494 pages
...refuses to believe in disorder or evil. Order is the absolute law; disorder is but ft phenomenon. . . . But such inveterate and persistent optimism, though...considerations and to personal responsibilities; it is the root of much of the irrational sentimentalism in our American politics. . . . Never were truer...
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Shelburne Essays: A New England group and others

Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1921 - 316 pages
...refuses to believe in disorder or evil. Order is the absolute law; disorder is but a phenomenon. . . . But such inveterate and persistent optimism, though...irrational sentimentalism in our American politics. . . . Never were truer words put on paper. The pure whiteness of Emerson's soul is, when all has been...
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A New England Group and Others: Shelburne Essays, Eleventh Series

Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 518 pages
...refuses to believe in disorder or evil. Order is the absolute law; disorder is but a phenomenon. . . . But such inveterate and persistent optimism, though...irrational sentimentalism in our American politics Never were truer words put on paper. The pure whiteness of Emerson's soul is, when all has been reckoned...
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Shelburne Essays: A New England group and others

Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1921 - 314 pages
...refuses to believe in disorder or evil. Order is the absolute law; disorder is but a phenomenon. . . . But such inveterate and persistent optimism, though...irrational sentimentalism in our American politics Never were truer words put on paper. The pure whiteness of Emerson's soul is, when all has been reckoned...
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A New England Group and Others: Shelburne Essays, Eleventh Series

Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 316 pages
...refuses to believe in disorder or evil. Order is the absolute law; disorder is but a phenomenon. . . . But such inveterate and persistent optimism, though...responsibilities; it is at the root of much of the irrational sentimentalist!! in our American politics. . . . Never were truer words put on paper. The pure whiteness...
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A Short History of American Literature: Based Upon The Cambrdige History of ...

William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - American literature - 1922 - 456 pages
...possible worlds, and the best of all possible times. He refuses to believe in disorder or evil. . . . But such inveterate and persistent optimism, though...politics, of much of our national disregard of honour iri our public men, of much of our unwillingness to accept hard truthsj and of much of the common tendency...
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Modern Humanists Reconsidered

John Mackinnon Robertson - Humanists - 1927 - 216 pages
...for a people. It degenerates into fatalistic indifference to moral considerations; it is at the root of the irrational sentimentalism in our American politics,...of our national disregard of honour in our public men"2 — and yet other serious shortcomings. But, recognizing with Norton that Emerson "does not reason,"...
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Breaking Murphy's Law: How Optimists Get What They Want from Life - and ...

Suzanne C. Segerstrom - Psychology - 2011 - 241 pages
...possible worlds, and the best of all possible times. He refuses to believe in disorder or evil. . . . But such inveterate and persistent optimism, though...considerations, and to personal responsibilities. . . . —A shipboard companion of American optimist Ralph Waldo Emerson Optimistic people expect positive...
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