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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Beauty of the Everyday

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Ralph Waldo Emerson taught us about the presence of nature and something a little divine inside all of us; simultaneously helping usher in what was considered, "America's intellectual declaration of independence."

Emerson's work ushered in generational conflict and transformation as commanding ideas in American literature. What other aspects of American history and society are dominated by these ideas.

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