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"The American Scholar: An Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837"
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Date: August 31, 1837
"A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: August 31, 1837
"The new deed is yet a part of life, — remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life. In some contemplative hour, it detaches itself from the life like a ripe fruit, to become a thought of the mind."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)