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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), Harvard-trained Unitarian who left the pulpit, became the essayist of American self-reliance and the Concord circle's quiet centre. Nature and the addresses made transcendentalism a public weather. One prayer on this list; the larger work is the mind that would not take its opinions second-hand. The sentences still send readers outdoors, and into themselves.

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