Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion.[77] Must that needs be… — Essays

Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion.[77] Must that needs be evil? We, it seems, are critical. We are embarrassed with second thoughts.[78] We cannot enjoy anything for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists. We are lined with eyes. We see with our feet. The time is infected with Hamlet's unhappiness,--

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