1 problem with "anthroposophists"...

is that they live, think and have their being in a kind of mythic psyche
(and most will not eg recognize the allusive word use source)

Havard gawkers

most tourists to Havard Yard could clearly not matriculate

Inside the Harvard Divinity School (19th century) Chapel

Emerson faced Calvinist "Christianity"
not "Alexandrian".
Might his 1838 "Divinity School Address"  been other wise had he?

Meaning in life?

haven't found him!
or it

or her
😉

talking with an intelligent "madman"

does there seem to be a consistent psychography, pneumography, ontography?

the book's author

how much can you tell of an author by his/her book?

"survival of the...

middest"?

civil religion

Americanity

conscience?

for how long and many is society stronger than conscience

the ordeal of the pursuit of happiness?

letting go, from experience, of the dream of companioned happiness
a recurrent nightmare?

civitas dei?

post-nihilism civitas macrocosmos?

toynbee's 19 civilizations?

rather mankind's single anthropography

eg Mount Pleasant tombstones

the passing 'eternity' of stones

the lost sense of Time

engulfed by secularized, mundane time

gnothi seauton also

the greatness and the baseness of man

the examined life?

the unexamined life...
the distracted life
the entertained life
the exoticized life

Made in ...

from underground plumbing to elegant porticos
Made in Man

sic transit gloria humanae

as tornados show with our homes, so nazi and gulag soldiers with our societies

interesting history

history would be more interesting
if more people were