Main Ideas of the Essay Context of the Address, “The American Scholar” is one of their famous essays of Emerson. He delivered this as a lecture to the Phi Beta: Kappa at Harvard college, on 31 August 1837. It is ...
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What are the duties of the American Scholar?
Question: What are the duties of the American Scholar? Or, Emerson points out some duties of the American Scholar. What are his duties? Or, Emerson gives the picture of an ideal scholar who is a man of thinking and action. ...
How does Emerson show a similarity between the two precepts “know thyself”, and “study nature”?
Question: And in fine, the ancient precept, “know thyself”, and the modern precept “study nature”, become at last one maxim”. Elucidate. Or, How does Emerson come to the conclusion that the old precept “know thyself” and the modern precept “study ...
The preamble of thought the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Explanations: The preamble of thought the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. (Para. 21) Answer: This is an excerpt from “The American Scholar,” ...
So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And in fine, the ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last one maxim.
Explanations: So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And in fine, the ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last one maxim. ...
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.
Explanations: Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. (Para-15) Answer: This sentence occurs in “The American Scholar” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The writer pinpoints the use and abuse of books in connection with the genius ...
In the right state, he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking
Explanations: In the right state, he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking. (Paragraph 6) Answer: This is an ...
What are, according to Emerson, Nature’s influences upon the American Scholar?
Question: What are, according to Emerson, Nature’s influences upon the American Scholar? Or, Discuss how the American Scholar is influenced by Nature. Or, How does Emerson show a similarity between Nature and his own mind? Answer: The American Scholar’s mind ...
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.
Explanations: 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. (Paragraph 4) These ...
What ideas do you gather about Emerson as a transcendentalist from the study of his essay “The American Scholar.”
Question: What ideas do you gather about Emerson as a transcendentalist from the study of his essay “The American Scholar.” Or, Give your ideas about Emerson as a transcendentalist. Or, What do you know about transcendentalism? Evaluate Emerson as a ...