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> [Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/emerson-was-the-chief-figure-in-the-american-transcendental-movement/)

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> [Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/emerson-then-incarnated-the-moral-optimism-the-progress-and-the/)

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## Other authors on Emerson

## More by Howard Mumford Jones

> [To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/to-find-out-what-we-presently-are-and-where-we-are-going-we-must-know/)

[Howard Mumford Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-mumford-jones/)

> [Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/emerson-was-the-chief-figure-in-the-american-transcendental-movement/)

[Howard Mumford Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-mumford-jones/)

> [Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/emerson-then-incarnated-the-moral-optimism-the-progress-and-the/)

[Howard Mumford Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-mumford-jones/)

> [When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/when-he-died-emerson-was-thought-of-as-the-representative-american/)

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> [Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/persecution-is-the-first-law-of-society-because-it-is-always-easier/)

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> [I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/i-for-one-hope-that-youth-will-again-revolt-and-again-demoralize-the/)

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> [Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/except-to-heaven-she-is-nought-except-for-angels-lone-except-to-some/)

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> [If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/if-the-equality-of-individuals-and-the-dignity-of-man-be-myths-they/)

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> [The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/the-incessant-struggle-of-the-mind-to-be-true-to-itself-to-absorb-new/)

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> [Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-mumford-jones/ours-is-the-age-which-is-proud-of-machines-that-think-and-suspicious/)

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