Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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published by the seniors of BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL Boston, Massachusetts June, 1957

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In the realm of philosophy, the man whose works, above all others, embody that curious blend of enthusiasm and unconventional creativity peculiarly American, is Ralph Waldo Emerson. Reared in the stern but by then yielding atmosphere of a puri- tanical society, he was, in a sense, the spiritual descendant of old Cotton Mather, the great divine of early New England. For although Emerson was swept up in the great transcendental movement of the early nineteenth century and was identified as one of its brightest stars, there still remained a powerful bond between his life and the past. He had clearly inherited from his Puritan forefathers the zeal and passion, the inner fire, the deep conviction which blazed so fiercely within the ardent souls of those prophets of an earlier age. Intellectually, his writings were in the spirit of Spinoza and the German idealists. He was a romanticist who breathed fresh life into the theory of the union of God and soul, and who preached the universal symmetry of spiritual truth. In his writings there are no sanctimonious moralisms; on the contrary, every phrase is a battle cry, a rallying point behind which those who ever seek to divert life from its staid, worn channels into the new and unknown may take heart and courage. Thus the influence of the sage of Concord has spread far beyond the limits of nineteenth century Boston, to wherever men have sought understanding and wisdom. Since the aim of the Boston Latin School has always been the development of intellect, the Yearbook dedicates this issue to a man who contributed much of himself to its emancii)ation.

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quap: hoc in libro CONTINENTUR PRAECEPTORES STUDENTES PRIMANl RES GESTAE RES ATHLETICAE ORDINATIONES SCHOLASTICAE DIES AD PRIMANOS PRAECIPUUS