Ode for Music http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=ocmu (1769), line 2
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Desolation Row
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
Widely misattributed to Emerson on the Internet, this quote is actually taken from Alfred North Whitehead's essay "Harvard: The Future" (The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936.)
Misattributed
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
"Harvard: The Future," http://books.google.com/books?id=X3k5AQAAIAAJ&q=%22No+member+of+a+crew+is+praised+for+the+rugged+individuality+of+his+rowing%22&pg=PA266#v=onepage The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/theatlantic/doc/203819851.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE&type=current&date=Sep+1936&author=Alfred+North+Whitehead&pub=The+Atlantic+(1932-1971)&edition=&startpage=260-270&desc=Harvard:+The+future
1930s
“Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.”
Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm (1935). Supernatural Songs http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm#1_0_7
Context: p>Then he struggled with the mind;
His proud heart he left behind. Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.</p
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-beyond-1998 of The Beyond (3 July 1998)
Reviews, Half-star reviews
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.”
Marshall McLuhan
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
Statement in 1965, in reference to Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963) by Buckminster Fuller, as quoted Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds (2005) by Daniel A. Vallero, p. 367
1960s
Variant: Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
Source: Either/Or, Part I
Canto I, stanza 1.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
