... to set aside undeveloped lands in the West as farms for blacks. But her plan won no government support. Ralph Waldo Emerson ranks as a leading figure in the thought and literature of American civilization. He was an essayist, critic, poet, orator, and popular philosopher. He brought together elements from the past and shaped them into ... Europe, Emerson began a career as a writer and lecturer. The sources of Emerson's thought have been found in many intellectual movements "Platonism, Neoplatonism, Puritanism, Renaissance poetry, mysticism, idealism, skepticism, and romanticism. His pro...

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