“People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity.”
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 25 May 1803 and dead in Concord, Massachusetts, on 27 April 1882, became one of the defining voices of nineteenth-century American literature. He was at once a poet, essayist, lecturer, editor, religious dissenter, and public moralist, though no single title…