The American Scholar is a speech and essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard College on August 31, 1837. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. called it 'the declaration of independence of American intellectual life.'
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Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (1837)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. declared this speech to be 'the declaration of independence of American intellectual life.'
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"The American Scholar" is a speech and essay by American writer and thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Mr. President and Gentlemen,
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