The American Scholar

The essay is a distillation of his over all thesis that he had been arguing for some time. He starts out with this distinction between the scholar in the degenerate state, as what he calls a mere thinker or parater of ideas,. and the Scholar in the right state, as a man. And then the third party goes into action. We'll get to some of the obvious influences on nicha, but i thought a lot of truth and lie and the extra moral sense, and i'll call out places where i saw some of that. Even rhetorically. Hich we should talk about that.