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American Champion of Individualism, Essayist, Non-conformist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Abolitionist, and Poet who Led the Transcendentalist Movement of the Mid-19th Century
: An American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #4 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and Tradition
“There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. It affirms because it holds. Its fingers clutch the fact, and it will not open its eyes to see a better fact. The castle, which conservatism is set to defend, is the actual state of things, good and bad.”
Source: "The Conservative," by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a lecture delivered at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1841.
"The Conservative," by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a lecture delivered at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1841.
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