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beauty, and who regards any personal defect as a
kind of sin. The new man follows only the laws
within his own bosom; but there he finds the
unfalsified sources of truth and beauty. The new man
believes in himself alone; he demands everything
from himself, and does all for himself, reposes in
and upon himself. The new type is a Stoic, but not
stern as such; he is gentle, beautiful. Wherever
he comes, life blooms; in a circle of friends it
becomes a holiday; nectar and ambrosia pour forth
at his approach; but he himself needs no friend.
He needs none, not even God; he himself becomes
God-like, inasmuch as he does not need him. He
conquers heaven by saying to it, “I desire thee
not!” He descends into nature as a restorer, governs
and places it under the spell of his influence,
and it is—his friend. In it he finds what suffices
him; the divinities of the woods whisper to him
their peace and self-sufficiency; “there is not a
hillock without a star above it,” there is no sorrow
which the healing life of nature cannot remove.
He says farewell to the proud world; he tramples
upon the greatness of Rome and Greece in this
rural little home, where he can see God in the
“burning bush.” Emerson’s language is strong and
compressed, simple, effective, and plastic. His
turns of thought are original; old ideas are
reproduced in so new and brilliant a manner that one
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