Natural History of Intellect, and Other Papers

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Ralph Waldo Emerson is the author of Natural History of Intellect, and Other Papers. The text says that few lives of eminent men are harmonious, but that all things recorded of Michael Angelo Buonarotti agree together. The text says that Michael Angelo made known his opinion that the bridge could not resist the force of the current, and that the bridge fell, five years after it was built, in 1557, and is still called the Broken Bridge.

The text speaks of a humorist, and says that he is like a lover or an outlaw who wraps up his message in a serenade, which is nonsense to the sentinel. The text says that terrors of witchcraft, terrors of evil spirits, and a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest, and that the divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity.