Ralph waldo emerson

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[object Object],Words like these helped shape the image of the Transcendentalists and of Concord.

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[object Object],[object Object],“ The present generation is bankrupt of principles and hope.” “ . . . Man is not what man should be. . . . He is a money chest.

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[object Object],“ Standing on the bare ground- my head bathed by the blythe air and uplifted into infinite space – all mean egotism vanishes.” “ I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the current of the Universal Being circulates through me; I am part or parcel of God.”

[object Object],Emerson saw misery and unfairness in society and government. The rich had too much and the poor not even enough. The government, in Emerson’s view, did little to help people’s lives.

[object Object],“ . . . Persons and property [are] the two objects for whose protection government exists . . . But whilst the rights of . . . Persons are equal . . . Their rights in property are very unequal.” Emerson believed that although the words of the Constitution created equality among persons, ownership of property often created an inequality that was not addressed by government or society. Emerson wanted to see a democracy based in spiritual values that lived up to its Constitutional promises.

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[object Object],[object Object],“ Even the corpse has its own beauty.”

[object Object],“ The tradesman, the attorney . . . sees the sky and the woods and is a man again . . . In their eternal calm, he finds himself.” Emerson celebrated the renewing powers of nature. It beauty, its calm, its strength he named as a source of peace and rebirth to all beings.

[object Object],Emerson saw his mission as to awaken in each person a recognition of self, an understanding of humanity, a connection to the spiritual through the beauty of nature.

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