"Emerson, Ralph W. - The Young American" - читать интересную книгу автора (Emerson Ralph Waldo)

This is the value of the Communities; not what they have done,
but the revolution which they indicate as on the way. Yes,
Government must educate the poor man. Look across the country from
any hill-side around us, and the landscape seems to crave Government.
The actual differences of men must be acknowledged, and met with love
and wisdom. These rising grounds which command the champaign below,
seem to ask for lords, true lords, _land_-lords, who understand the
land and its uses, and the applicabilities of men, and whose
government would be what it should, namely, mediation between want
and supply. How gladly would each citizen pay a commission for the
support and continuation of good guidance. None should be a governor
who has not a talent for governing. Now many people have a native
skill for carving out business for many hands; a genius for the
disposition of affairs; and are never happier than when difficult
practical questions, which embarrass other men, are to be solved.
All lies in light before them; they are in their element. Could any
means be contrived to appoint only these! There really seems a
progress towards such a state of things, in which this work shall be
done by these natural workmen; and this, not certainly through any
increased discretion shown by the citizens at elections, but by the
gradual contempt into which official government falls, and the
increasing disposition of private adventurers to assume its fallen
functions. Thus the costly Post Office is likely to go into disuse
before the private transportation-shop of Harnden and his
competitors. The currency threatens to fall entirely into private
hands. Justice is continually administered more and more by private
reference, and not by litigation. We have feudal governments in a
commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial
system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an
architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has a talent for
righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling
poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for
combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him
in the county-town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr.
Smith, _Governor_, Mr. Johnson, _Working king_.

How can our young men complain of the poverty of things in New
England, and not feel that poverty as a demand on their charity to
make New England rich? Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless
and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction,
and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not
hear his call to go and be their king?

We must have kings, and we must have nobles. Nature provides
such in every society, -- only let us have the real instead of the
titular. Let us have our leading and our inspiration from the best.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. Let
the powers be well directed, directed by love, and they would
everywhere be greeted with joy and honor. The chief is the chief all