Nature seen from the point of view of common sense is commodity from the point of view of reason it is an alphabet or allegory of divinity.
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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.Howard Mumford Jones
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When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
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