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. |
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... of a cherub as painted over churches , a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide - stretched - symmetrical wings. What appears once in the atmosphere may appear.
... of a cherub as painted over churches , a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide - stretched - symmetrical wings. What appears once in the atmosphere may appear.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. symmetrical wings. What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often, and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament. I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. symmetrical wings. What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often, and it was undoubtedly the archetype of that familiar ornament. I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me ...
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... appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form, and which seems the self- defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists, and a feeling that.
... appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form, and which seems the self- defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists, and a feeling that.
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... appear stupid. Transport him to large countries, dense population, complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon. This is but ...
... appear stupid. Transport him to large countries, dense population, complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon. This is but ...
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Contents
COMPENSATION | |
SPIRITUAL LAWS | |
LOVE | |
FRIENDSHIP | |
PRUDENCE | |
HEROISM | |
THE OVERSOUL | |
CIRCLES | |
INTELLECT | |
ART TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
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