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Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Essential Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Essential Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books
The Conduct of Life
I. Fate
II. Power
III. Wealth
IV. Culture
V. Behavior
VI. Worship
VII. Considerations by the Way
VIII. Beauty
IX. Illusions
Essays – First Series
History
Self-Reliance
Compensation
Spiritual Laws
Love
Friendship
Prudence
Heroism
The Over-Soul
Circles
Intellect
Art
Essays – Second Series
The Poet
Experience
Character
Manners
Gifts
Nature
Politics
Nominalist and Realist
New England Reformers
Nature
Introduction
Chapter I. Nature
Chapter II. Commodity
Chapter III. Beauty
Chapter IV. Language
Chapter V. Discipline
Chapter VI. Idealism
Chapter VII. Spirit
Chapter VIII. Prospects
Representative Men
Uses of Great Men
Plato or, The Philosopher
Plato: New Readings
Swedenborg or, The Mystic
Montaigne or, The Skeptic
Shakespeare or, The Poet
Napoleon or, The Man of the World
Goethe or, The Writer
Addresses and Lectures
The American Scholar
An Address in Divinity College
Literary Ethics
The Method of Nature
Man the Reformer
Lecture on The Times
The Conservative
The Transcendentalist
The Young American
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For, if Fate is so prevailing, man also is part of it, and can confront fate with fate. If the Universe have these savage accidents, our atoms are as savage in resistance. We should be crushed by the atmosphere, but for the reaction of the air within the body. A tube made of a film of glass can resist the shock of the ocean, if filled with the same water. If there be omnipotence in the stroke, there is omnipotence of recoil.
1. But Fate against Fate is only parrying and defence: there are, also, the noble creative forces. The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. We rightly say of ourselves, we were born, and afterward we were born again, and many times. We have successive experiences so important, that the new forgets the old, and hence the mythology of the seven or the nine heavens. The day of days, the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things, to the omnipresence of law; — sees that what is must be, and ought to be, or is the best. This beatitude dips from on high down on us, and we see. It is not in us so much as we are in it. If the air come to our lungs, we breathe and live; if not, we die. If the light come to our eyes, we see; else not. And if truth come to our mind, we suddenly expand to its dimensions, as if we grew to worlds. We are as lawgivers; we speak for Nature; we prophesy and divine.
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