Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Never Too Late to Learn
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (August 31, 1872):
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I thought to-day, in these rare seaside woods, that if absolute leisure were offered me, I should run to the college or the scientific school which offered best lectures on Geology, Chemistry, Minerals, Botany, and seek to make the alphabets of those sciences clear to me. How could leisure or labour be better employed? 'Tis never late to learn them, and every secret opened goes to authorize our aesthetics. Cato learned Greek at eighty years, but these are older bibles and oracles than Greek.Emerson was 69 when he wrote those words.
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