...to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. In this version, evil can be recognized in the actions of others, but not in the nature of the actor....

...Fichte's subjective idealism and Romanticism. For the St. Louis Hegelians, Emerson's conviction that "the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it," expressed the sort of sentiment that could easily be misappropriated by fanatics.97 In 1 865 the St....

...me but that of my own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it' ('Self-Reliance', in Essays. First Series. The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. ii (Boston:...

...to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.34 This is not the expression of a senseless egomania; not a word or act in his life suggests that....

...to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.2 From Lincoln's concern with obeying laws we have here an open embrace of philosophical anarchy...

...of Emerson's insistence that "good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it."26 In the world of Wise Blood, this is no triumph. When good and bad are merely names, people inhabit...

...self-reliance. In an essay entitled 'Self- Reliance' published in 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson asserted that, "[a] man is to carry himself in the presence of all...opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he."27 London's intention, in testing the myth of himself against the most hostile environments, was...

...to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. ... What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. And from Henry David Thoreau's...

...about Americans' particular vulnerability to the comforts of joining a group. "I am ashamed to think of how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions," he wrote (EL, 262). Caught in the vise of the avant-garde paradox, Ashbery's solution is, like Emerson's,...

...not. This, whether we refer to man in general or in particular. This, whether there be a God or not. "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges...