Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it

Quote by Howard Mumford Jones

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When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and...

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and...

Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee,...

Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee,...

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight...

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight...

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men...

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men...

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all...

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all...

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism...

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism...