Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 237

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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fragment from a draft of his lecture, "Aristocracy," with numerous holograph corrections. 2 pages, oblong 8vo, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; inlaid. Np, nd
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"The service we receive from the great is a mutual deference. If you deal with a vulgar mind, life is reduced to beggary. The astronomers were eager to know whether the moon has an atmosphere; I am only concerned that every man have one. . . ."
"Aristocracy" appears in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 10, Boston & New York, 1803-82.