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Excerpt from Transcendentalism Truly Remarkable
Forced to admit that our ideals are ever better than our performances, we with greater force bear witness that the reportedly unknown means by which nebu lous luminosity becomes intellectually nucleated ideas, -we assert that the Means has for many centuries also been better idealized than actuated by man. Alas and obviously, even accepted Light Bearers such as Emerson continue to clothe what they call intuitional ideas with scholarly precepts, and thus not only does the ideal by performance but the far more important Means itself become clouded by dark sayings.
With commendable humility, Emerson writes that the learned and studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Yet thousands of interested readers of the scholarly Lectures and the time-honored Emerson Essays seek a clearer understanding of the wisdom (truth) expressed in them, and this largely because of rhetorical form and vocabulary used by the learned and studious author.
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