...class may forget or forgo the need for action. But, Emerson reminds us, real knowledge depends upon it: "The preamble of thought, the transition through which...is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted,...

...but it is essential. Without it he is not yet man. Without it thought can never ripen into truth.... Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind." • The antiwar movement, which bred, perhaps inadvertently, a skepticism about the warrior ethos and its relation...

...threshold of his public ministry when he told the young scholars at Harvard, "Inaction is cowardice . . . there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. The...action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived." 163 It is not enough, as he told an audience of young Transcendental idealists four years later, to...

...never ripen into truth. Whilst the world hangs before the eye as a cloud of beauty, we cannot even see its beauty. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be...is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. The world, - this shadow of the...