When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the ... in Smith’s book made perfect sense to him. “The basis of ...

The courage to stand alone, to challenge the mob, to think for oneself — these are no longer virtues but liabilities.

Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy ... The Boston literary crowd overlapped with the advocacy of progressive political ideas, especially abolition and women's suffrage, as well as the plight ...

Transcendentalist essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once described "a foolish consistency" as "the hobgoblin of little minds." Two centuries later, those little minds have found a new hobgoblin ...