Happy Birthday, Ralph Waldo
Emerson Would Be 222 Today
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born this day (May 25) in 1803. He is rightly celebrated as perhaps America’s premier homegrown philosopher. Along with his younger friend Henry David Thoreau and the gang of less-famous Transcendentalists, his influence on the American mind has been profound, and his impact continues to this day.
His departure from conventional …