Oct 26, 2023 - Sale 2650

Sale 2650 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
FROM "MAN THE REFORMER" EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, 14 lines from the middle of "Man the Reformer," lecture delivered by him in Boston on January 25, 1841, before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, likely removed from the Autograph Centenary Edition of Emerson's Complete Works published by Houghton Mifflin in 1903. 1 page, 8vo; inlaid, faint scattered foxing, folds. Np, circa January 1841
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". . . Knowledge, Virtue, Power, are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. . . . Only such persons interest us: Spartans, Romans, Saracens, English, Americans who have stood in the jaws of need & have by their own wit & might extricated themselves from harm's way & made man victorious."