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An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837

An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837

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    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    22 cm x 13.8 cm

    Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1837


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    [ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

    In this famous oration, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, Mass., Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson encouraged his listeners to become "Man Thinking," rather than "a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking." Oliver Wendell Holmes called the speech America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence."