Which American philosopher was a close friend of Carlyle?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
William James
John Dewey
Answer
Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American philosopher, was a close friend of Thomas Carlyle. Emerson considered Carlyle the "undoubted head of English letters" and a "secular prophet."
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