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Type: Writer Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Date of Birth: April 16, 1892 Date of Death: May 11, 1980 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Howard Mumford Jones Related Authors: Mason Cooley H. L. Mencken Eric Hoffer Elbert Hubbard Oliver Wendell Holmes Marilyn vos Savant Bill James Jeff Long |
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
Howard Mumford Jones Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. Howard Mumford Jones I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. Howard Mumford Jones Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. Howard Mumford Jones When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. Howard Mumford Jones |
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