Ralph Waldom Emerson gave his address to the Harvard Divinity School on this date in 1838. He wasn't invited back for thirty years.

" I look for the new Teacher, that shall follow so far those shining laws, that he shall see them come full circle; shall see their rounding complete grace; shall see the world to be the mirror of the soul; shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart; and shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science, with Beauty, and with Joy. "