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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Barbarous Societies

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We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1844. Essays: Second Series.
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