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Emerson: the ideal in America
A generation after Americans had freed themselves politically and economically from Britain, it would be up to Ralph Waldo Emerson to carry the Revolution to individual men and women by exhorting them to a freedom of the spirit as well. Through a de...
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The American transcendentalists: Concord, Massachusetts
The ideas and ideals of three American Transcendentalists - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller - initially given expression through "The Dial" continue to shape the discourse of literature, philosophy, and religion worldwi...