Centenary Edition

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON

WITH

A BIOGRAPHICAL

INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY EDWARD WALDO EMERSON AND

A GENERAL INDEX

VOLUME
XI

AMS PRESS

NEW YORK

PS

160

こ

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1904

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Centenary edition, the complete works of
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Reprint of the 1903-04 ed. published by Houghton,
Mifflin, Boston.

Bibliography: v. 1, p.

CONTENTS: v. 1. Nature, addresses, and lectures.-
v. 2. Essays, First series.-v. 3. Essays,

second series.-v. 4. Representative men.-v. 5. English
traits. v. 6. Conduct of life.-v. 7. Society and

solitude.-v. 8. Letters and social aims.-v. 9. Poems.—
v. 10. Lectures and biographical sketches.-v. 11. Mis-
cellanies. v. 12. Natural history of intellect, and
other papers.

I. Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930.
PS1600.F79

814.'3

ISBN 0-404-05480-3

79-15830

NOTE: The Library of Congress has also catalogued the
volumes of this set individually. The Library of Congress
Number assigned to this volume is listed below, along
with the set and the individual ISBN Numbers.

First AMS edition published in 1968.
Second edition, with a new introduction by

International Standard Book Number

Complete Set: 0-404-05480-3

Volume XI: 0-404-05491-9

Library of Congress Number, Volume XI:
79-16447

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IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PREFACE

HE year after Mr. Emerson's death, Mr.

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Cabot, in editing his works, gathered into a volume the occasional writings which had never been included in previous editions, although six of them had been printed, either as pamphlets or in periodicals, long before, by the author. These were the Sermon on The Lord's Supper, the Historical Address at Concord in 1835, that at the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument there in 1867, and that on Emancipation in the British West Indies, the Essay on War, and the Editors' Address in the Massachusetts Quarterly Review. "American Civilization" had been a portion of the article of that name in the Atlantic in 1862. "The Fortune of the Republic" also had been printed as a pamphlet in 1874. Mr. Cabot said in his prefatory note, "In none was any change from the original form made by me, except in the 'Fortune of the Republic,' which was made up of several lectures, for the occasion upon which it was read." This was after Mr. Emerson was