Ralph Waldo Emerson and the transcendentalists were greatly influenced by the Moralia and in his glowing introduction to the five-volume, 19th-century edition, he called the Lives "a bible for heroes".
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the transcendentalists we.re greatly influenced by the Moralia and in his glowing introduction to the five-volume, 19.th-century edition, he called the .Lives "a bible for heroes".