... Waldo Emerson acknowledged another aspect of idealism. "Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever too flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."" ("Self-Reliance-). Emerson related misfits with pure and wise spirits, perhaps they are just ... misunderstood'. Henry Wadsworth Thoreau, author of "Civil Disobedience- and Walden, integrated idealism with both. From "Civil Disobedience- "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better gove...

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... moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., during Adams's administration, and he became the first president to live in the White House. Adams was the first chief executive whose son also served as president. Adams played a leading role in the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, and was a signer of the historic document. He had spoken out boldly for separation from the United Kingdom at a time when most colonial leaders still hoped to ... , semi critical essays on Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They are linke...

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