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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1844,” Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903).

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Titles by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• Self-Reliance
• The Rhodora
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• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Rhodora)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)

Salem on History:

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Encyclopedia:

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (World Philosophers and Their Works)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Critical Survey of Poetry)

Literary Criticism:

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Poetry Criticism)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson dies
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• Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers his “Divinity School Address” at Harvard Divinity School
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