Emerson/institutions

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“But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into. And not only it, but the institutions upon it are plastic like clay in the hands of the potter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)