Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Not Marketable or Perishable
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "The Transcendentalist," Essays & Lectures (New York: The Library of America, 1983), pp. 193-209 (at 208):
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Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute, or a subscription of stock, for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry, for a new house or a larger business, for a political party, or the division of an estate—will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
