Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.


Orations, Lectures, and Addresses (ed. 1845)


Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing ...

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing ...

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing ...

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing ...