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.
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Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
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