“When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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