Nature is no sentimentalist—does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Modern

Transcendentalism

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From 'Fate' in 'The Conduct of Life'

Date / Period

1860

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Controversial

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2944/2944-h/2944-h.htm

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