Thanks primarily to Robert Richardson’s pathbreaking 1995 biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson, The Mind on Fire) we have come to know Emerson at last as his contemporaries, family, and friends actually knew him. For them, he was not “the plaster sage of Concord.” He was an engaged and activist citizen, who took time from his intellectual and philosophical labors to speak out forcefully in support of the major political and moral struggle of his time, the fight against slavery. Can Emerson’s words, spoken well over a century ago, still inspire and strengthen our resolve today, as we face the moral and political challenges of our own time?
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Topics: History, Prophetic voices