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An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge
Also Known As The Divinity School Address
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Known since as the Divinity School Address, delivered to Harvard's graduating divinity class on 15 July 1838. Its rejection of historical miracle as the ground of religious truth provoked Andrews Norton's public reply the following year and kept Emerson off the Harvard platform for nearly thirty years.
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Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge (1838)
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The "Divinity School Address" is the common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838.
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge (1838)
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