The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.


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

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases,...

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases,...

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases,...

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases,...