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Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts. ... In 1836, Emerson expressed Transcendentalism’s main principle of the “mystical unity of nature” in his essay, “Nature”. ...
Emerson urged independent thinking and stressed that not all life’s answers are found in books. In his “The American Scholar” address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837, Emerson states that: “Books are the best things, well used; abused, among the worst”. ...
In 1855, Emerson received a thin book entitled Leaves of Grass by a poet he had never heard of before.
Approximate Word count = 439 Approximate Pages = 1.8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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