"--Len Gougeon, author of Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform, and past President of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society (2000-2001) "This is an engaging book--well-written, without jargon, and suitable for the educated reader as ...

This essay is a declaration of independence of the United States intellectual community from Europe's.

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Following this groundbreaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence".