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Written in 1837 by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
This version originally published in
2005
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Infomotions, Inc.
This document is distributed under the GNU Public License.
(An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837)
Mr. President and Gentlemen,
I greet you on the re-commencement of our literary year. Our anniversary is one of hope, and, perhaps, not enough of labor. We do not meet for games of strength or skill, for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes, like the ancient Greeks; for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours; nor for the advancement of science, like our cotemporaries in the British and European capitals.
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