You Have No Right To Turn Away

Quintus Curtius by Quintus Curtius

Nov 15, 202500:07:47Arts

In an 1842 letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle chastised Emerson, saying, "A man has no right to say to his generation, turning away from it, 'Be Damned!' It is the whole past and the whole...

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