Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.


The American Scholar (1837)


Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.