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2014年11月30日

"Power" in The Conduct of Life , by Ralph Waldo Emerson (9)

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travels, and encounters strangers every day, or, when
into any old club a new comer is domesticated, that
happens which befalls, when a strange ox is driven
into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is
at once a trial of strength between the best pair of
horns and the new comer, and it is settled thenceforth
which is the leader. So now, there is a measuring of
strength, very courteous, but decisive, and an
acquiescence thenceforward when these two meet.
Each reads his fate in the other's eyes. The weaker party
finds, that none of his information or wit quite fits the
occasion. He thought he knew this or that: he finds that he
omitted to learn the end of it. Nothing that he knows will
quite hit the mark, whilst all the rival's arrows are good,
and well thrown. But if he knew all the facts in the
encyclopædia, it would not help him: for this is an affair of
presence of mind, of attitude, of aplomb: the opponent has
the sun and wind, and, in every cast, the choice of weapon
and mark; and, when he himself is matched with some other
antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit. 'Tis a question of
stomach and constitution. The second man is as good as the
first,—perhaps better; but has not stoutness or stomach,
as the first has, and so his wit seems over-fine or under-fine.

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