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By rights, Emerson felt, man should enter at a bound into his proper nature, annihilating his lower life by one blow of moral revolution. The bent spring, released, should snap upright by its own strength. But what were the means of release? The soul has various faculties, particularly the reason and the will; through which is its redemption to be achieved? Emerson did not know and at different times conceded primacy to each. The question to which he devoted much of his thought, especially in the decade or so after 1833, was that of the means of both moral and intellectual culture—the purification of the heart and the inspiration of the mind.
Bacon’s Orpheus was a Baconian philosopher-natural scientist; Cudworth’s a Neoplatonic Christian; Plutarch’s and Plato’s, an image of spiritual purification. It is sly of Emerson to bring in the not very Orphic Swedenborgians of the New Church, but he really means his Central Man to be universal. The sparagmos of Orpheus is a prime emblem for the American; religion, whose motto I once ventured as: Everything that can be broken should be broken.
But ... ’ 24 Stephen E. Whicher He had already in at least one passage come to the same point from the opposite direction in The American Scholar, when disillusioned with the partiality of thought, as he is in ‘Spiritual Laws’ with that of action. ‘... when thoughts are no longer apprehended,’ he then argued, ‘... [the scholar] has always the resource to live.... This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act.... ’ Against this background we can understand his increasing admiration for what he called Character.