The Conduct of Life (1st World Library Literary Society Classics) - Hardcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 142180848X ISBN 13: 9781421808482

Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2005

Synopsis

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It chanced during one winter, a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age. By an odd coincidence, four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the citizens of Boston or New York, on the Spirit of the Times. It so happened that the subject had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season. To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity. 'Tis fine for us to speculate and elect our course, if we must accept an irresistible dictation.

About this title

About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 142180848X
• ISBN 13: 9781421808482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: 1stworld Library