What Ralph Waldo Emerson thinks about democracy
American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882); began his career as a Unitarian minister in Boston; author of essays including Self-Reliance, History, The Over-Soul and Fate.
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1 dated position, c. 1844, in their own words. Our reading of what Ralph Waldo Emerson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingDemocracy tends to anarchy, yet it is indispensable to stop all being absorbed into a few
Their wordsDemocracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the State and in the schools it is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
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