read the following excerpt. it is adapted from ralph waldo emersons 1837 address before the top twenty - five men in harvards graduating class.
the theory of books is noble. the scholar of the first age experienced the world; gave it a new arrangement of his own mind and uttered it again. it came into him, life; it went out from him, truth. it came to him, short - lived actions; it went out from him, immortal thoughts. it came to him, business; it went from him, poetry. it was dead fact; now, it is quick thought. it can stand and it can go. it now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it flowed, so high does it soar, so long does it sing.
but no book is quite perfect. as no air - pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book or write a book of pure thought that shall make as much sense to posterity as to his contemporary readers. each age, it is found, must write its own books; or, rather, each generation must write for the next succeeding....
the book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. that is good, they say: let us stick with this. they pin books down. they look backward and not forward. but genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead; man hopes, genius creates.
adapted from ralph waldo emerson, he american scholar\
based on the excerpt, what is the purpose of ralph waldo emersons speech?
to encourage the graduates to continue writing booksto motivate the graduates to pursue more advanced degreesto persuade the graduates to read classic works of literatureto criticize the graduates over - reliance on books

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read the following excerpt. it is adapted from ralph waldo emersons 1837 address before the top twenty - five men in harvards graduating class.
the theory of books is noble. the scholar of the first age experienced the world; gave it a new arrangement of his own mind and uttered it again. it came into him, life; it went out from him, truth. it came to him, short - lived actions; it went out from him, immortal thoughts. it came to him, business; it went from him, poetry. it was dead fact; now, it is quick thought. it can stand and it can go. it now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it flowed, so high does it soar, so long does it sing.
but no book is quite perfect. as no air - pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book or write a book of pure thought that shall make as much sense to posterity as to his contemporary readers. each age, it is found, must write its own books; or, rather, each generation must write for the next succeeding....
the book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. that is good, they say: let us stick with this. they pin books down. they look backward and not forward. but genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead; man hopes, genius creates.
adapted from ralph waldo emerson, 	he american scholar\
based on the excerpt, what is the purpose of ralph waldo emersons speech?
to encourage the graduates to continue writing booksto motivate the graduates to pursue more advanced degreesto persuade the graduates to read classic works of literatureto criticize the graduates over - reliance on books

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# Brief Explanations:
The text criticizes the over - reliance on past works (books, college, etc.) as they "stop with some past utterance of genius" and look backward. It emphasizes that each age must write its own books and that genius looks forward. This indicates a critique of over - reliance on books.
# Answer:
to criticize the graduates' over - reliance on books

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