Emerson and the Defense of Equality WFBL Aviation researcher and historian Simine

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Emerson and the Defense of Equality WFBL Aviation researcher and historian SimineArguing for equality as the necessary foundation of liberty During Ralph Waldo Emerson's lifetime, the idea of universal human equality was under intensive assault. Repeatedly in contexts ranging from slavery, to marriage, to politics and workers' rights Americans of the time were being told that equality was an obsolete ideal and that the future would belong to those who accepted the hard truth that liberty lies not in egalitarian values but in