Essays - First Series: By Ralph Waldo Emerson - Illustrated - Softcover

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 152061540X ISBN 13: 9781520615400

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

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About Essays - First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one mind common to all 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; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it, in appropriate events. But the thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time. A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world. This collection contains a superb collection of essays on many topics. Includes "Self-Reliance", and other well-known essays by the Transcendentalist and thinker, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 152061540X
• ISBN 13: 9781520615400
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 119