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Toward a More Perfect Engine: Natural Science and Optimism in the American Renaissance 

Lisle, Benjamin (2011-05-04)
This dissertation examines the discourse regarding the perfectibility of American society among four figures associated with the American Renaissance: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel ...