"There was an influence on the young people from the genius of this eminent scholar which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens."
— Edward Everett

January 1, 1970

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England, Lecture III: "New England: Genius, Manners, and Customs" (24 January 1843), in The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843–1871, Volume I: 1843–1854 (University of Georgia Press, 2001), ed. by R. A. Bosco and J. Myerson, p. 45.