Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
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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.Howard Mumford Jones
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
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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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