"Man the Reformer"

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The paper discusses the essay of Emerson, which is known as "Man the Reformer". This essay was written in order to describe the duties of an individual and to advise the people in how they can help their fellowmen and live happy and peaceful lives. In order to elaborate this point further, the paper presents a little information on the author of this essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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"Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in the year 1803 and researches show that he developed an interest in writing since his childhood. His essays and literary works present the idea that Emerson possessed a wide range of knowledge and information, which he used in the development of his essays. Emerson is mostly famous for his lectures and essays, which are still taught to the students of literature even today. His essay "Man the reformer" was appreciated and praised by the people because it was a well-written essay describing all the duties and responsibilities of an individual towards his country and he has also explored the various aspects of gaining stable economy by the use of combined labor.
"In the history of the world the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour. Lutherans, Hernhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham, in their accusations of society, all respected something,--church or state, literature or history, domestic usages, the market town, the dinner table, coined money. But now all these and all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment,--Christianity, the laws, commerce, schools, the farm, the laboratory; and not a kingdom, town, statute, rite, calling, man, or woman, but is threatened by the new spirit"."

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