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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... nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be ...
... nature awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be ...
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... nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove. I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone ... nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature ...
... nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove. I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone ... nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature ...
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... nature, the perfection of the senses,—of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body. In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms ...
... nature, the perfection of the senses,—of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body. In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms ...
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... natural. The Greeks are not reflective, but perfect in their senses and in their health, with the finest physical ... nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep, to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I ...
... natural. The Greeks are not reflective, but perfect in their senses and in their health, with the finest physical ... nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep, to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I ...
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... nature. The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus. The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know the Proteus ...
... nature. The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus. The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes him know the Proteus ...
Contents
COMPENSATION | |
SPIRITUAL LAWS | |
LOVE | |
FRIENDSHIP | |
PRUDENCE | |
HEROISM | |
THE OVERSOUL | |
CIRCLES | |
INTELLECT | |
ART TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
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