tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post5133864878519146328..comments2024-03-15T02:14:38.309-07:00Comments on bloginafog: There is some confusionWoflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-44791315470270806942020-01-11T22:42:35.311-08:002020-01-11T22:42:35.311-08:00Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, Vol. IX: 1856-1863 ...Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, Vol. IX: 1856-1863 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913), p. 89 (1857):<br /><br /> Because our education is defective, because we are superficial and ill-read, we are forced to make the most of that position, of ignorance. Hence America is a vast know-nothing party, and we disparage books, and cry up intuition. With a few clever men we have made a reputable thing of that, and denouncing libraries and severe culture, and magnifying the mother-wit swagger of bright boys from the country colleges, we have even come so far as to deceive everybody, except ourselves, into an admiration of un-learning and inspiration, forsooth.<br /><br />Alma Kaselishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14062640986672050214noreply@blogger.com