Howard Mumford Jones
Howard Mumford Jones
Howard Mumford Jones was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at Harvard University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 April 1892
CountryUnited States of America
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Nature seen from the point of view of common sense is commodity; from the point of view of reason it is an alphabet or allegory of divinity.
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The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.
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Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.