“If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as “spiritual life,” “God,” “soul,” “cross,” etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

June 15, 1844
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

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