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 | | Amos Bronson Alcott was a man of many talents and professions, including, but not limited to, educator, philosopher, conversationalist and poet. |
 | | Alcott certainly had the ideals and the drive to do great things, but there must have been something lacking (perhaps knowledge, as Emerson inferred) because despite his capabilities, his dreams when placed into the medium of reality, dissolved rather quickly; only in his mind could they maintain substance. |
 | | Alcott, in his Orphic Sayings, took many complex abstract ideas and wrote of them directly in short passages of flowing transcendental language seeking to "attempt in a few sentences to reach an intensity of speech that would go directly to the heart of his hearers." (Stoehr, 33) These passages tell the reader what to think. |
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