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Almost every man we meet requires some civility, requires to be humored but a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston in, Educated at Harvard and the Cambridge Divinity School, he became a Unitarian minister inat the Second Church Unitarian, The congregation, with Christian overtones, issued communion, something Emerson refused to do, Really, it is beyond my comprehension, Emerson once said, when asked by a seminary professor whether he believed in God, Quoted in ,Years of Freethought edited by sitelink Jim Haught, By, after the untimely death of his first wife, Emerson cut loose from Unitarianism, During a year long trip to Europe, Emerson became acquainted with such intelligentsia as British writer sitelink
Thomas Carlyle, and poets sitelink Wordsworth and sitelink Coleridge.
He returned to the United States in, to a life Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston in, Educated at Harvard and the Cambridge Divinity School, he became a Unitarian minister inat the Second Church Unitarian, The congregation, with Christian overtones, issued communion, something Emerson refused to do, "Really, it is beyond my comprehension," Emerson once said, when asked by a seminary professor whether he believed in God, Quoted in ,Years of Freethought edited by sitelink Jim Haught, By, after the untimely death of his first wife, Emerson cut loose from Unitarianism, During a year long trip to Europe, Emerson became acquainted with such intelligentsia as British writer sitelink Thomas Carlyle, and poets sitelink Wordsworth and sitelink Coleridge.
He returned to the United States in, to a life as poet, writer and lecturer, Emerson inspired Transcendentalism, although never adopting the label himself, He rejected traditional ideas of deity in favor of an "Over Soul" or "Form of Good," ideas which were considered highly heretical.
His books include Nature, The American Scholar, Divinity School Address, Essays,vol,,, Nature, Addresses and Lectures, and three volumes of poetry, Margaret Fuller became one of his "disciples," as did sitelink Henry David Thoreau, The best of Emerson's rather wordy writing survives as epigrams, such as the famous: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
" Other one and two liners include: "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect" Self Reliance,.
"The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being" Journal,, "The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression it is a monster, It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain" Address to Harvard Divinity College, July,, He demolished the right wing hypocrites of his era in his essay "Worship": ", the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons" Conduct of Life,, "I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship" Self Reliance.
"The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal the things that are not seen are eternal.
' It puts an affront upon nature" English Traits ,, "The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant, " Civilization,. He influenced generations of Americans, from his friend sitelink Henry David Thoreau to sitelink John Dewey, and in Europe, sitelink Friedrich Nietzsche, who takes up such Emersonian themes as power, fate, the uses of poetry and history, and the critique of Christianity.
D sitelink Ralph Waldo Emerson was his son and sitelink Waldo Emerson Forbes, his grandson, sitelink.