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  • Voices of Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    language (C&C Web Press, Nov. 11, 2008)
    C&C Web Press brings you "Voices of Transcendentalism: The Complete Collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 32 selections in all. Comes with active table of contentsSelection includes the following:ArtCharacterCirclesCompensationConcord Hymn Divinity School AddressEnglish TraitsExperienceFriendshipGiftsHeroismHistoryIntellectLiterary EthicsLoveMan the ReformerMannersNatureNew England ReformersNominalist and RealistPoliticsPrudenceRepresentative MenSelf-Reliance Spiritual LawsThe American ScholarThe ConservativeThe Method of NatureThe Over-SoulThe PoetThe TranscendentalistThe Young American Excerpt from Self-Reliance:"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony".