rozwoj-i-zycie: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shewing What Hugh Stanbury Thought About The Duty of Man. IN the conference which took place between Sir Marmaduke and his wife after the interview between him and Nora, it was his idea that nothing further should be done at all. ‘I don’t suppose the man will come here if he be told not,’ said...

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Theological-Political Treatise, Chapter 20, “That in a Free Society Every Man May Think What he Likes, and Say What He Thinks”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Transfigured. Abstract This afterward considers two assessments of Emerson’s career and its meaning offered at the 1903 centenary of Emerson’s birth: the first in a lecture given by William James, and the second an address by John Dewey. Pointing out that both of these public statements, which insisted upon Emerson’s abiding relevance to the justice struggles of the early twentieth century, “both ring true and ring hollow” in light of Emerson’s own limitations as proponent for reform and the potential to outfit Emerson’s works as forms of “weaponry” for social or economic change.