EssaysOpen Road Media, 2016 M03 15 - 262 pages The major works of one of the nineteenth century’s most influential philosophers In the early days of the American experiment, as the states spread across the continent and the young nation was reshaped by the Industrial Revolution, no intellectual held more power than Ralph Waldo Emerson. The leading light of the Transcendentalists, Emerson spent his life devising a uniquely American philosophy, a worldview as suited to the bustling docks of Boston as it is to the endless expanses of the West. Through lectures, letters, and essays, Emerson helped a nation discover its identity. In this collection, which includes such monumental essays as “Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” and “The American Scholar,” Emerson brilliantly articulates his philosophy of individualism and nonconformity. An inspiration to Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and countless other literary and political figures, Emerson exerted a profound influence that continues to be felt more than a century after his death. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. |
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... stands on a new spot and serves for new combinations . From everything he sees the direct line issuing which connects it with the focus of life .... " ... Emerson's theory is that of the ' sovereignty of the individual . ' To discover ...
... stands on a new spot and serves for new combinations . From everything he sees the direct line issuing which connects it with the focus of life .... " ... Emerson's theory is that of the ' sovereignty of the individual . ' To discover ...
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... stands connected with his wherever the English language is spoken . Emerson , the younger of the two , had just broken his Unitarian fetters , and was looking out around him like a young eagle longing for light . He had read Carlyle's ...
... stands connected with his wherever the English language is spoken . Emerson , the younger of the two , had just broken his Unitarian fetters , and was looking out around him like a young eagle longing for light . He had read Carlyle's ...
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... stand firm , place them how or where you will . He criticised Swedenborg for being superfluously explanatory , and having an exaggerated feeling of the ignorance of men . ' Men take truths of this nature , ' said Emerson , ' very fast ...
... stand firm , place them how or where you will . He criticised Swedenborg for being superfluously explanatory , and having an exaggerated feeling of the ignorance of men . ' Men take truths of this nature , ' said Emerson , ' very fast ...
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... stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him ... stands by itself. By and by it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three ...
... stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him ... stands by itself. By and by it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three ...
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... stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind ... stands upon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers ...
... stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind ... stands upon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers ...
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