"A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. . . ." A warm welcome, friends, to the Center for American Studies at Concord. In the Concord tradition, our labors are committed to giving voice, ever and anew, to the words of the ancient prophet: Without a vision — human/humane — the people perish. WITH such a vision, We the People are destined, together, through our labor pains to bear forth the “new birth of freedom” that constitutes our eternal birthright. We invite you to bring your best thoughts, aspiring hearts, and abiding good will to the “Concordium.” Welcome home! Con-corde, Stuart-Sinclair Weeks Founder ". . . When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. And the blindness of the intellect begins, when it would be something of itself. The weakness of the will begins, when the individual would be something of himself. All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us. . . ."       — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Over-Soul"

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