Emerson
"For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born."
From his essay "The Conservative."
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/conservative.html
"For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born."
From his essay "The Conservative."
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/conservative.html
