Originally posted 2011 Today is the birthday of America's greatest philosopher/essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. His Transcendentalist writings were a major influence on my Mountebanks Manifesto. I used a quote from "The American Scholar" on the frontispiece: "Free should the scholar be " free and brave." (Though in some versions I juxtaposed it with the motto […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:17AM on May 25, 2013