{"id":12570,"date":"2009-06-23T12:42:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/emerson-on-thoreaus-lack-of-ambition\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:42:41","slug":"emerson-on-thoreaus-lack-of-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/emerson-on-thoreaus-lack-of-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerson on Thoreau&#8217;s Lack of Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry from June, 1851:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Thoreau wants a little ambition in his mixture. Fault of this, instead of being the head of American engineers, he is captain of [the] huckleberry party. (Bliss Perry, ed., <strong>The Heart of Emerson&#39;s Journals<\/strong>, Houghton Mifflin, 1926, p. 256.)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">As a former student of engineering, I am glad Thoreau stuck to his walking and writing. Like Kierkegaard, he served as a much-needed corrective to the hustle and frenzy of his age.&#0160; There is need of slackers to counterbalance the go-getters, and if slackers need a patron saint, Henry David would be a fine choice as would Walt Whitman.&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry from June, 1851: Thoreau wants a little ambition in his mixture. Fault of this, instead of being the head of American engineers, he is captain of [the] huckleberry party. (Bliss Perry, ed., The Heart of Emerson&#39;s Journals, Houghton Mifflin, 1926, p. 256.) As a former student of engineering, I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/emerson-on-thoreaus-lack-of-ambition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emerson on Thoreau&#8217;s Lack of Ambition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}