We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.


Essays: Second Series (ed. 1844)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of...

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of...

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of...

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of...