Why was Emerson fired from Harvard? Why did they apologize and invite him to give a talk at Harvard 40 years later?

We are to worship the past, not anything currently alive. Emerson was expelled from Harvard for more than 30 years as a result of his attack, and it wasn't until he gained notoriety and a reputation as the nation's conscience that he was finally accepted back and became an Overseer of the school. Many of Emerson's fellow transcendentalists praised the speech, but the Harvard administration was furious and forbade him from speaking on campus for thirty years after he delivered a similarly critical lecture at the divinity school the next year. He epitomizes individuality and forging one's own path, but in his lifetime, Harvard college forbade him from enrolling despite the fact that he was a respected student there because of his ideals.

Why did they apologize and invite him to give a talk at Harvard 40 years later?

Forty years later, they realize that they should have understood what he was saying and not blamed him for saying it, and that he was correct because of his speech on the abolitionist effort to end slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson addressed the Phi Beta Kappa society at the commencement week of Harvard University in 1837. The group, which was made up of the best graduates in the class, assembled in Cambridge's First Parish Church. Emerson had been invited as the honored guest to address the future intellectual elite of New England. Emerson had served as the class poet of his own Harvard class a decade earlier and was a writer and philosopher of developing reputation.

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