Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general gove...rnment has just discovered women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many m...aterials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs. B...ut you must have the believing and prophetic eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, ...the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are; Hermes, Cadmus, Columbus, Newton, Bonaparte, are the mind's ministers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or si...x men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the most p...rominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the day's demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm d...imensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »