Tag Tag Social reform
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged: in the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience have been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson New England Reformers · 1844

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Abraham Lincoln · 1842
Temperance Address

An appeal for temperance reform through sympathy, personal example and persuasion rather than condemnation of people affected by alcohol.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1844
New England Reformers

An examination of New England reform movements, considering their ambitions, limitations, social experiments, and Emerson’s emphasis on individual moral development.

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