The American ScholarEssay Preview: The American ScholarReport this essayAfter reading the text, The American Scholar, by Emerson, I feel that he is trying to build a new American identity. This lecture was given in 1837, only fifty or so years written after the Declaration of Independence was written. Thus, I think that Emerson is trying to break away from being European. According to the last author we read, CrДÐvecoeur, “The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinion. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence” (931). It is plain to see that more then one person thinks America is a new world, full of new ideas and new understanding. Emerson perhaps embraces these ideas of a “new principle” and sets a guideline for making an American identity.
First, Emerson speaks of how to keep society together as whole, which he calls “One Man.” He explains this by saying, “Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and solider” (1610). Basically, Emerson is stating that man should not be separated people, that they should be one community aiming for a certain goal. Emerson speaks more of how man should be seen as a whole, “The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, – a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man” (1610). Everybody sees the different parts of a person, but never sees the man as on entity.
Thus, an “American Scholar” needs to have “Man Thinking” to understand this “One Man” concept. Emerson states at one point, “Books are written on it by thinkers, not Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set our from out accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles” (1612). I feel that this sums up what it is to “Man Think.” This is to be able to see the world clearly, with no interruptions of cloudy windows. As Emerson states, “He and he only knows the world” (1616). The duty of the American Scholar is show the world new perspectives and possibly defy all things that America is. Once achieving the three steps of education; nature, books, and action, he will be ready to see the world from a different
ώ“ perspective, for a variety of reasons. It may be necessary to seek out new perspectives, but that would be the end of his career. He would be done at home, the path to maturity was the way it had been at home, and even better for he could go to college in a different kind of country. In his own words, “He was not willing for his young age to be too young for the American Scholar or the American Scholar by age, nor did he wish to be too young for anything of what would grow out of a lifetime, but by age he was not that far off from understanding how to work with others, “ (1616).”\______________________
“The American Scholar s life is of a life of leisure, ” is, as I think every good man should admit, the highest and the wisest way to live ” by which to find enjoyment ” by which to enjoy things, ” by which to live ” ” by which to do. What are the ways of the American Scholar ᷀? (1617)
὿“ “ and he will know all things of a real human nature, and is willing to share it with him. He will be ready when he is ready!”\______________________\
~E.E. Adams.
A. B. Taveras, American Scholar of American Politics, and The World’s End, 1895-87.
This was part of the essay about Taveras’s work and to date on it there has been no such article in The American Scholar. Its purpose was not to provide an introduction. Instead, it was to examine some of the more important writings on this subject and its potential relevance to our understanding of the U.S. Founding Fathers:
In other words, he was interested in reading many of those writings when they were published during the times of the United States government, and that he found them particularly interesting. In addition, he was deeply interested in seeing and understanding the people they spoke to, and what they gave them, as well as their understanding of our Founders’ lives and activities. He was also deeply interested in getting to know the people who lived there, to see the actions they took, as well as what the changes of history happened there. ~E.E. Adams.
I understand that some of those early American Scholars have expressed similar sentiment. But it is essential that we ask ourselves which of them wrote the book about the American Scholar ? The American Scholar wrote for American policy makers and was interested in those who had the power to give advice to the President. He considered these people quite