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emerson-young-736	Ralph Waldo Emerson	The Young American			.epub	application/epub+zip	7169	285	64	If this invention has reduced England to a third of its size, by bringing people so much nearer, in this country it has given a new celerity to _time_, or anticipated by fifty years the planting of tracts of land, the choice of water privileges, the working of mines, and other natural advantages. These proceeded from a variety of motives, from an impatience of many usages in common life, from a wish for greater freedom than the manners and opinions of society permitted, but in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the State, the State had let fall to the ground; that in the scramble of parties for the public purse, the main duties of government were omitted, -the duty to instruct the ignorant, to supply the poor with work and with good guidance.	./cache/emerson-young-736.epub	./txt/emerson-young-736.txt