there is a wonderful writer, philosopher and poet of the 19th century called ralph waldo emerson.e best in others, to leave the world a little bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or kindness to others, to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. this is to have succeeded. when you feel sad, try and remember that grief is the price that we pay for loving. and the only reason that you hurt is because you have had the privilege of loving so very much. tom was central to his family. he lived a life surrounded by the love of his family, the love of his friends, and in the last year becoming a darling not only of the nation but of the world. and a beacon of hope during these challenging times. his was truly a rich and successful life indeed. goethe said, whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. please could i now ask you all to stand for the committal? to everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose on earth. a time to be born and a time to die. a time to weep and a time to da

host: ralph waldo emerson, a thinker back then, said lincoln is the one example we have of someone who has a whole range of experience from the highest it with shakespeare and the opera down to the really lowest. he had this incredible cultural range. even though he had barely any education. he was always feeding his mind with the high literature and also telling jokes. the jokes got him in touch with the common, everyday people. he loves to tell jokes and tell stories. next up is geraldine in georgia. thanks for waiting. caller: good morning. listen, several years ago it was i making this comment but i would like to ask you a question about this. i know lincoln wanted to colonize slaves after the civil war. to say that lincoln freed the slaves, i don't know what he did. could you help me understand? what did he do as far as slavery? guest: thank you for that great question. there's a book called forced into glory and said lincoln was a racist. they took down the statue of lincoln in boston. they are changing the name of a high school in san francisco. getting rid of the name abraham l

martyrdom for this just cause and and this was this was what so moved people like henry thoreau and ralph waldo emerson that this guy would give his life for a cause that at least so far. they had only been writing for and speaking for so this was the power of john brown's. example and it's you know, it's a powerful statement, you know, you can't make a more powerful statement than that, and this is of course the reason that john brown has resonated throughout history down till now. yeah, i think of the line from the melville poem the portent that calls him meteor of war and that union soldiers go marching off to fight to the tune of john brown's body. that's an inspiring song for them. so if you want to ask yourself, what was john brown's contribution to history? you have to be prepared to answer a corollary question, but the corollary question is actually a bigger question than john brown. do you think? that the civil war or something very much like it was necessary to end slavery in the american south. and if your answer is yes, then like melville you'd say john brown is the meteor that signals that

host: ralph waldo emerson, a thinker back then, said lincoln is the one example we have of someone who a whole range of experience from the highest it with shakespeare and the opera down to the really lowest. he had this incredible cultural range. even though he had barely any education. he was always feeding his mind with the high literature and also telling jokes. the jokes got him in touch with the common, everyday people. he loves to tell jokes and tell stories. next up is geraldine in georgia. thanks for waiting. caller: good morning. listen, several years ago it was i making this comment but i would like to ask you a question about this. i know lincoln wanted to colonize slaves after the civil war. to say that lincoln freed the slaves, i don't know what he did. could you help me understand? what did he do as far as slavery? guest: thank you for that great question. there's a book called forced into glory and said lincoln was a racist. they took down the statue of lincoln in boston. they are changing the name of a high school in san francisco. getting rid of the name abraham linco

ralph waldo emerson.com. he wrote any writer needs a basis that he can't supply on his own. he called it a chaos deep so we'll end-- soil and emerson thought writer scott that from a popular mind at the time and he said that ideas of the timer in their and an interesting phrase, again emerson, infecting everyone who believed it and breathe it and we pick up from our contemporaries with theirs is almost through the pores of our skin. does this idea apply to economics in either emerson nor einstein referred to economics, but certainly economist somebody did. my harvard predecessor joseph wrote that any kind of analysis and economics is a prof-- product of what he called pre-analytical vision. he was attached enough importance to it that used the capital v, that's his capital, not mine. my late colleague and the leanest friend ken galbreath wrote economic ideas are always and intimately a product of their own time and place. i'm arguing that the ideas that smith and hume advanced were very much a product of their time and their place including the religious revolution that was going on at just the time. lets positive moment just to ma