Exploring the Text: - In his essay “Circles,” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, “There is no virtue which is final; all are initial. The virtues of society are the vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has contained our grosser vices.” In his autobiography, Franklin writes, “It was about this time that I conceiv’d the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection” (par. 9). How would you compare the two views of virtue held by these writers? Is an enterprise such as achieving moral perfection even possible? Explain.