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Who is William Emerson from Emerson: The Mind on Fire: A Biography and what is their importance?
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William Emerson was Ralph's older brother and the oldest of the brothers. He was a Harvard graduate and went onto become a teacher. William then studied theology in Germany, and experience that shook his faith, and from which, he never recovered.
Emerson from Emerson: The Mind on Fire: A Biography