Discourses in America
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Discourses in America is by Matthew Arnold. The preface says that of the three discourses in this volume, the second was originally given as the Rede Lecture at Cambridge, was recast for delivery in America, and is reprinted here as so recast. The preface says that the first discourse, that on Numbers, was originally given in New York. The preface says that the third discourse, that on Emerson, was originally given in Emerson's own delightful town, Boston.
A speaker tells the audience that the vast scale of things here, the extent of your country, your numbers, the rapidity of your increase, strike the imagination. The speaker says "I think your numbers afford a very real and important ground for satisfaction". The text exclaims "how wise is Emerson!" for never had man such a sense of the inexhaustibleness of nature, and such hope.
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- Matthew Arnold
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- Pages
- 43
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