After a conversation with Henry Thoreau in October 1850, Emerson recorded in his journal: "My own quarrel with America, of course, was, that the geography is sublime, but the men are not." He then noted that those who had joined Atlantic to Pacific had done so through "selfishness, fraud, & conspiracy." Gay Wilson Allen, Waldo Emerson (1981), 545.
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