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It Does Not Follow Because Many Books Are Written By Persons Born In America That There Exists An American Literature. Books Which Imitate Or Represent The Thoughts And Life Of Europe Do Not Constitute An American Literature. Before Such Can Exist, An Original Idea Must Animate This Nation And Fresh Currents Of Life Must Call Into Life Fresh Thoughts Along The Shore.

We Need To Hear The Excuses Men Make To Themselves For Their Worthlessness.

Male And Female Represent The Two Sides Of The Great Radical Dualism. But In Fact They Are Perpetually Passing Into One Another. Fluid Hardens To Solid, Solid Rushes To Fluid. There Is No Wholly Masculine Man, No Purely Feminine Woman.

Reverence The Highest, Have Patience With The Lowest. Let This Day's Performance Of The Meanest Duty Be Thy Religion. Are The Stars Too Distant, Pick Up The Pebble That Lies At Thy Feet, And From It Learn The All.

Essays, Entitled Critical, Are Epistles Addressed To The Public, Through Which The Mind Of The Recluse Relieves Itself Of Its Impressions.