It had been a while since I had read "On Nature" or any other works by Ralph Waldo Emerson. But I happened across Emerson's 1842 lecture at a Masonic Temple and enjoyed it so much that I want to pass it along.
In the lecture, he weighs the battle between conservatism (in the old time sense) and innovation, from both the individual and societal perspective. I'm not one to use the term loosely, but it is brilliantly done with insights into both sides of the argument.
It's lengthy, difficult reading. But it's worth the time and energy.
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