Brian SmallDec 26
A quote by Emerson on Success showed up as a meme on FB and maybe other places too.. It got me thinking of William James and W.B. Yeats words that I associate with "success" in the tacky commercialized sense and wondering if Emerson really said(or wrote this).. It's good that I searched because he probably didn't maybe he wasn't quite this 'pedantic' !?? I want to read and think a it more with his other poems though too.^2

> "this has the same pedantic feel and plodding meter of 'Success,' and WHC's dates are close to Emerson's. It appears that this type of writing was in vogue in the 2nd half of the 19th C. Even if 'Success' can't be found in WHC's writings, I think a search of the writings of Unitarians of that period are likely to bear fruit." Perhaps someone will be motivated to take an interest and follow this up.

https://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Sui-Generis/Emerson/success.htm

^2 https://amblesideonline.org/poet-emerson

https://www.poetryverse.com/ralph-waldo-emerson-poems/success

Yeats book; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36865
和訳: https://gtgsh.hatenablog.com/entry/6bf841fa51b5b745305ec6a497811e2a
James article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/23/william-james-centenary

#EmersonOnSuccess #BessieStanley #YeatsOnSuccess #JamesOnSuccess #WilliamJames #WBYeats #FoulWitch #BitchGoddess #CommercialSuccess #FoulWitch和訳
Show threadBrian SmallJun 13, 2023

.> We have taught them a few formulas of morality, utterly unpractical and impossible to apply—as we prove by not applying them ourselves. From their social life the students learn what the real world is—a place of class distinctions based upon property; they learn the American religion—what William James calls “the worship of the bitch-goddess Success.” They throw themselves into the social struggle with ferocious determination to get ahead; and when they go out into the world, they carry that spirit into the commercial struggle. #UptonSinclair on #Success and the #GooseStep approach in #AmericanEducation #USAEducation #ExclusiveWorship of #BitchGoddess Success

- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/

@bsmall2

origin of the phrase ‘the bitch goddess’ (material success)

11 September 1906 in a letter addressed to the English novelist H. G. Wells by the American philosopher and psychologist William James

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> ... understandable in onlooking citizens only as a symptom of the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease. Hit it hard! Your book must have a great effect. Do you remember the glorious remarks about success in Chesterton’s “Heretics”?
- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/
#WilliamJames on #BitchGoddess #Success #AmericanDisease #USADisease
origin of the phrase ‘the bitch goddess’ (material success)

11 September 1906 in a letter addressed to the English novelist H. G. Wells by the American philosopher and psychologist William James

word histories
Show threadbs2Mar 27, 2022

> TOIL and grow rich,
What's that but to lie
With a foul witch
And after, drained dry,
To be brought
To the chamber where
Lies one long sought
With despair.

https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy097.htm

#Yeats, #poem #Success #WilliamJames #BitchGoddess #LordsOfWar #Lockheed #Raytheon

Later Poems of Yeats: Responsibilities (1914): I. The Witch

Later Poems by W.B. Yeats, at sacred-texts.com