7 March
The Sphinx
Guest - popular sentiment (democracy) → source of truth as good as if not better than
individual man of genius as source
Monster is bug
Guest has no sense of perspective
To consider democracy, we must think about distance
When will it be fully realized?
Guest – for democracy
Supports of Jackson
Democrats
Power in hands of people
Host – wants to think more about the matter
Educated
Whigs
People needed representatives – educated, people of stature
Dorr Rebellion
1841-1842
Which men allowed to vote?
Thomas Dorr leads militarized rebellion
Suffrage for poor men
Emerson
Do not only read – also experience and think critically
Lecturer
Concord, Massachusetts
Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Peabody,
Margaret Fuller
Group became called T
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