Essays — First SeriesGood Press, 2019 M11 20 - 250 pages "Essays — First Series" is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841, concerning transcendentalism. Waldo was an avowed Transcendentalist, a movement that sprung up in the New England region of the United States in the mid-19th century. Its core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday, rather than believing in a distant heaven. They viewed physical and spiritual phenomena as part of dynamic processes rather than discrete entities. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 52
Page
... virtue to him. He should see that he can live all history in his own person. He must sit solidly at home, and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the ...
... virtue to him. He should see that he can live all history in his own person. He must sit solidly at home, and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the ...
Page
... virtue of his being once a child; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics. A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek, and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas. I admire the love ...
... virtue of his being once a child; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics. A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek, and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas. I admire the love ...
Page
... virtue. He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition. A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation. How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament ...
... virtue. He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition. A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation. How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament ...
Page
... virtues of minerals, of understanding the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction. The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavour of the human ...
... virtues of minerals, of understanding the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction. The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavour of the human ...
Page
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Contents
COMPENSATION | |
SPIRITUAL LAWS | |
LOVE | |
FRIENDSHIP | |
PRUDENCE | |
HEROISM | |
THE OVERSOUL | |
CIRCLES | |
INTELLECT | |
ART TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Aeschylus affection appear beauty becomes behold better black event Bonduca character circumstance conversation divine doctrine earth Epaminondas eternal experience fable fact fear feel Francis Cook friendship genius gifts give hand heart heaven Heraclitus heroism hour human instinct intellect less light live look man's marriage mind moral nature never noble object ourselves OVER-SOUL painted pass passion perception perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion picture Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry prudence Pyrrhonism Ralph Waldo Emerson relations religion Rome sculpture secret seek seems seen sense sensual sentiment Shakspeare society Socrates Sophocles soul speak spirit stand Stoicism sweet talent teach thee things thou thought to-day to-morrow true truth universal Victor Hirtzler virtue whilst whole wisdom wise Word Play words Xenophon youth Zoroaster