When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.


Uses of Great Men. - Representative Men (1850)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In...

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In...

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In...

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In...