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Not everything here is worth reading, but a good deal is. His Emancipation in the West Indies essay is very underrated, it being a history lesson in the Carlyle mode. His Fugitive Slave Law speech is a searing damnation of the memory of Daniel Webster who supported it; if he voted against it he might be well-known today, but few Americans now could tell you who he was, and Emerson would be well pleased with that
— Apr 27, 2022 02:27PM
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I feel Emerson was profoundly right when he called mystics just limited poets. They may have glimpsed at truth here and there, but made the mistake of putting their associations into too rigid and solid a cage, whereas the metaphors of poets are always in flux. There is little surprise then that Emerson found the Unitarianism of his youth far too limited and closed-off for a formidable mind like his.
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