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War: Turning now to Mr. Emerson.(OPINION)
From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20030411
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Byline: Imagined and compiled by Roderick Nordell
Suppose Ralph Waldo Emerson were giving a CENTCOM briefing in Qatar today based on his lecture, "War," before the American Peace Society in Boston in 1838. Words from that lecture, as well as some more familiar lines from the American literary icon, seem pertinent again in his 200th anniversary year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
Q: So you favor the ...
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