...anchor in the past : he must sail onward in the present to the future. And he concludes in summary : We will walk on our own feet : we will work with our...for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all. A nation...

...Self-Reliance of the Early Pioneers. What is this spirit ? Emerson has expressed it in a sentence : " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." This was the spirit which animated that little group of colonists who preferred the unknown hardships...

...people; and of one who sheds a constant blessing, even now, like the sunshine from the sky. V EMERSON " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson. V LOUISA ALCOTT'S NEIGHBOR ONE afternoon at sundown, about a hundred years ago,...

...beginning of "The American Scholar," concluding with a series of calls that echo the Twenty-third Psahn: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our...name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine...

...geographically, as the North, or the South? Not so, brothers and friends, —please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our...for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all. A nation...

...apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," and in the last paragraph he predicts that "we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."21 If "The American Scholar" urges the abandonment of slavish scholarship for the self-reliant...

...stand on its feet, when, in his essay on the American scholar, delivered at Harvard, 1837, he said, "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. A nation of men can exist only when each man believes himself inspired by the divine soul which also...

...geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." The American nation was not a nation of Americans. "A nation of men," predicted Emerson, "will for the...

...of intervening authority. Williams simply echoed the credo of an earlier poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." Emerson's declaration of cultural independence would work not by fiat but through the conviction of...

...European styles and theories. We have, Emerson wrote, "listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe." "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds" (in Stanton, 1960, p. 84). In the early to mid-nineteenth century, the budding profession of American...