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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    In Ralph Waldo Emerson: Mature life and works

    In English Traits he gave a character analysis of a people from which he himself stemmed. The Conduct of Life (1860), Emerson’s most mature work, reveals a developed humanism together with a full awareness of human limitations. It may be considered as partly confession. Emerson’s collected…

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