Address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard, 31 August 1837, calling for an American literature independent of Europe; Oliver Wendell Holmes later called it America's intellectual declaration of independence.
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"The American Scholar" is a speech and essay by American writer and thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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