For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)


For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.