His gross and astonishing errors & illusions spring from a self-conceit so intensely intellectual and calm that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
A self-conceit so intensely intellectual and calm that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name
A line in Hershel Parker's Herman Melville: 1851-1891, page 502. Melville on Emerson:
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