a surname, notably of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American transcendentalist writer
from Old English 'Emery's son', where Emery comes from Germanic 'Amalric' meaning 'work-power'
Ralph Waldo Emerson basically invented the idea of American intellectual independence - he told Americans to stop copying Europeans and think for themselves!
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