In his essay “Self Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson stated the following regarding the relationship between society and its individual members: “Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members ...
As we face another week of government shutdowns — and the debate over Obamacare (which goes into effect on January 1, 2014) rages on in Washington — what can we as Americans do to keep our healthcare ...
Understanding Emerson : "The American scholar" and his struggle for self-reliance / Kenneth S. Sacks
A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost ...
A few paragraphs separated by nearly two centuries chart a downhill slalom from liberty to dependency. First, here’s Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Self-Reliance”: “The education at college of fools; the ...
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