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“It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago.
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From The American Scholar of Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Read the surrounding argument as well as the excerpt; its historical language and philosophical assumptions shape its meaning.
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Source: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson , The American Scholar
Edition: Edna H. L. Turpin selection
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