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Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Howard Mumford Jones

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Howard Mumford Jones
Age: 88 †
Born: 1892
Born: April 16
Died: 1980
Died: May 11
Literary Scholar
Writer
Saginaw
Michigan
Howard Mumford Jones
Moral
American
Energy
Spirit
Incarnated
Emerson
Optimism
Progress

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