Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, And Louisa May's Daddy

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It sounds like two philosophers
chewing the fat
but it is actually
a monologue
with a slight curvature

BRONSON ALCOTT
(1799-1888)

As a New England educator,
Mr. Bronson racially integrated classes
long before it was culturally acceptable
to do so.

His school introduced the idea
of gymnastics for young children 

The quote is from p. 224
of
The Stammering Century

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Footnote
Another Alcott quote appears
on the next page of Gilbert Seldes' book:

"That is a failure when a man's idea
ruins him, when he is dwarfed and killed
by it. But when he is ever growing by it,
ever true to it, and does not lose it
by any partial or immediate failures—
that is success, whatever it seems
to the world." 

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