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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... individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel ...
... individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel ...
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... individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always ...
... individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always ...
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... individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us , nothing that does not interest us , -kingdom , college , tree , horse , or iron shoe , the roots of all things are in man . Santa Croce and the Dome of ...
... individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us , nothing that does not interest us , -kingdom , college , tree , horse , or iron shoe , the roots of all things are in man . Santa Croce and the Dome of ...
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... individual. The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle ... individuals, as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate. A man of rude health and flowing ...
... individual. The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle ... individuals, as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate. A man of rude health and flowing ...
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... individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelligible to him, as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs. The primeval world,—the Fore-World, as ...
... individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelligible to him, as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs. The primeval world,—the Fore-World, as ...
Contents
COMPENSATION | |
SPIRITUAL LAWS | |
LOVE | |
FRIENDSHIP | |
PRUDENCE | |
HEROISM | |
THE OVERSOUL | |
CIRCLES | |
INTELLECT | |
ART TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
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