Literary tours to Concord won’t be complete without visiting the long-time home of Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Character is higher than intellect,” he once said. “A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think.” Emerson traveled throughout the United States and Europe sharing the insights he and his closest friends observed and discussed while he lived in this home in what could be declared the center of a philosophical revolution. His lectures presented spiritual insight, an understanding of the arts and sciences, and political and social obligations. His home still looks very much as it did between the years of 1835 and 1882. He wrote his well-known essays from this home, and visitors will enjoy exploring its rooms and viewing many of his own personal effects, imagining the atmosphere of those highly philosophical days.
