Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations, Vol. VI. Edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911, p. 288.
Day was often associated with left wing causes, but she was very hard to classify in traditional political terms. This quotation shows that unlike most communists and many socialists, she was an advocate of private property although she fought for the ability of a larger proportion of the population to have property.
See {638124} for how this Biblical passage evolved into a concept of property ownership
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
