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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 #8 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and Truth
“Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is individual and imperious. We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.”
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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