Katie's blog:: "Emerson: Hello, my fellow citizens of this beautiful world. I have come from the future. Do not be alarmed, it was a very ..."
Perhaps this speaks for itself! Good work Katie, you have indeed entered fully into American Conversations.
If we want follow-up, it might be to go back to the article about activist pietism to consider how these two fit into that interpretive scheme. Does one represent the stream of pursuit of "perfect freedom" and the other "perfect morality/obedience"? Certainly there is a linage that flows from the Puritans to the Unitarians (which RWE was) to the Transcendentalists (which he becomes). But, is this a linage with a 90 degree angle in it?
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