[Footnote 3: At the time this oration was delivered (1837), many of th… — Essays

Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Footnote 3: At the time this oration was delivered (1837), many of the authors who have since given America a place in the world's literature were young men writing their first books. "We were," says James Russell Lowell, "still socially and intellectually moored to English thought, till Emerson cut the cable and gave us a chance at the dangers and glories of blue water."]

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