...for the above sentiment about the past is shared by Emerson. In "The American Scholar" he wrote that "I had better never see a book than to be warped by...The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."34 Some thirty years after his diary entry, in 1903, James was called upon to deliver the Address...

...excitements. Well before Emerson issued to the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard College his dictum that "the one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul" (Whicher, 68), Sophia was living it out. Fig. 2. Sophia Hawthorne as a young woman illumination wherever...

...henceforth the chant is divine also... as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.... The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any...

...and to raise the feeling of his worth." What is most important in each 42 person's life? To Emerson, "the one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul." Leading the mid-nineteenth-century movement of Transcendentalism, Emerson personified its basic tenets:...

...repellent orb, straightforwardly notes in optical terms his fear of the very pantheistic merger he pursues: "I had better never see a book than to be warped by...orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system" ("The American Scholar," W 1:90). (He also asserts that the monomaniac, the man who "fastens his attention...

...he told an American audience, "Books are the best things well used; abused, among the worst. . . . The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man contains within him." 14 Working 13. Newman, The Idea of a University, ed. IT Ker, pp. 234, 231 . 14....

...helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new." Out from the intimidating mass of dead knowledge: "I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attractions clean out of my orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system."19 Out from the company...

...thyself had to be amplified by the modern charge, "study nature" — by no means only through books. "The one thing in the world of value, is, the active soul, — the soul, free, sovereign, active."59 One should recall Emerson's lecture on literature and his...

...for homestead'. These Neoplatonic and pragmatic tendencies come together in Emerson's statement that 'the one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul'. Whether in history, philosophy or conversation, Emerson stresses the expansions or transitions of thinking...

...with others, no matter what work they may be performing. Soulftil Work Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "The one thing in the world of value, is the active soul. " In other words, a person who is actively living, working, and loving in this world is making a real...