This work advocates telling off solicitors for "the thousand-fold Relief Societies," arguing that "Your goodness must have some edge to it; else it is none."
This work advocates telling off solicitors for "the thousand-fold Relief Societies," arguing that "Your goodness must have some edge to it; else it is none." Preceded by the epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune, and opening with the author recalling original "verses written by an eminent painter," it equates envy with ignorance and contrasts boys' freedom with "the man... clapped into jail by his consciousness." This essay uses the examples of Pythagoras, Socrates, Jesus, and Newton to show that "To be great is to be misunderstood." This essay shows readers that "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist" and contains the dictum that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For 10 points, identify this essay exalting individualism by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This work advocates telling off solicitors for "the thousand-fold Relief Societies," arguing that "Your goodness must have some edge to it; else it is none."
"Self-Reliance"