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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is...
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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared . . .
Source: The American Scholar, lecture, 31 Aug 1837, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard University; in Nature, Addresses and Lectures, 1849.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.