【美国人物志】拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生(7/12)

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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生，美国思想家，诗人。1836年出版处女作《论自然》。他文学上的贡献主要在散文和诗歌上。
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the Harvard religious school
Harvard's traditional Christian churchThe following year, Emerson was invited to speak to students and teachers at the Harvard religious school. In his speech, he called for moral and spiritual rebirth. But his words shocked members of Harvard's traditional Christian church. He said churches treated religion as if God were dead. "Let mankind stand forevermore," he said, "as a temple returned to greatness by new love, new faith, new sight." Church members who heard him speak called him a man who did not believe in God. Almost 30 years passed before Harvard invited Emerson to speak there again.