Ralph Waldo Emerson's publication of nature in 1836 began a process of creating a new condition of American thinking, severed from European cultural and intellectual influences.
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那个读了《论自然》深受感动的年轻人,也和爱默生那样开始写日记,然后引章摘句,拿出去发表。
Like Emerson, the younger man-deeply struck by a reading of Nature-began to keep a journal, from which he culled items for publication.