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...like a drummer's timetable, his Abolition activities make lim look like a Balkan conspirator. Such behavior as his dining John Brown, "a real hero," might shock Concord, but Emerson snapped his fingers. It need not have surprised any who recalled that the American Revolution was barely a generaion old when the penniless Emerson boy used to "thrill" as he pastured the family cow "on the battlefield," and that the author of "America's intellectual declaraion of independence" liked talking to veterans of the fight at Concord Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waldo | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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