...was not unconscious of these incongruities, and recast Emerson's remark in Self-Reliance, " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines," into the three lines in Song of Myself. " Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself,...

...of opinion to be inconstancy. CICERO— Ep. ad Atticum. Bk. XVI. 8. (See also EMERSON) 7 A foolish ead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Attributed to LORD BROUGHAM. 1 EMERSON — Essays. Self-Reliance. s With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. * * *...

...-Reliance, " brings out the idea that Emerson did not condemn true consistency of thought : "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ' ' It is interesting to note that Emerson's Journals afford Dr. Crothers quite a number of texts as...

...quanta vuole. " Which sounds very much like a famous passage in Emerson (quoted from memory): "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great •I3 Curiositei estheliques, p. 203. '14 Ibid., p. 201. soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what...

...them«. es kommt auf den Leser an — einer seiner typischsten Aussprüche also lautet: »A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do«. Mit den Philosophen scheint Emerson sich überhaupt nicht gut verstanden zu haben, dies muß bekannt...

...stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divinesWith consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...

...though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. ^A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little mindp.: adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul...

...though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A. foolish consistency is...soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern nimsell with his shadow on the wall. SooV ™V "' in hard words apd speak wha,^ to-morrow thinks in...

...though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the. harlot, and flee. > \ A foolish consistency...minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and" divinesT With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...

...great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. — EMERSON. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — EMERSON. There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free...