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Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Collected 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
English Traits
Chapter 1. First Visit to England
Chapter 2. Voyage to England
Chapter 3. Land
Chapter 4. Race
Chapter 5. Ability
Chapter 6. Manners
Chapter 7. Truth
Chapter 8. Character
Chapter 9. Cockayne
Chapter 10. Wealth
Chapter 11. Aristocracy
Chapter 12. Universities
Chapter 13. Religion
Chapter 14. Literature
Chapter 15. The “Times”
Chapter 16. Stonehenge
Chapter 17. Personal
Chapter 18. Result
Chapter 19. Speech at Manchester
Society and Solitude
Society and Solitude
Civilization
Art
Eloquence
Domestic Life
Farming
Works and Days
Books
Clubs
Courage
Success
Old Age
Letters and Social Aims
Poetry and Imagination
Social Aims
Eloquence
Resources
The Comic
Quotation and Originality
Progress of Culture
Persian Poetry
Inspiration
Greatness
Immortality
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
Letter to President Van Buren
The Man of Letters
The Celebration of Intellect
The Scholar
The Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation in the British West Indies
Historical Discourse at Concord
Dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument in Concord
APPENDIX
The Fugitive Slave Law—Address at Concord
The Fugitive Slave Law—Lecture at New York
Consecration of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
The Assault upon Mr. Sumner
Woman
Abraham Lincoln
Robert Burns
Shakespeare
Humboldt
Walter Scott
Theodore Parker
John Brown—Speech at Boston
John Brown—Speech at Salem
Harvard Commemoration Speech
Speech on Affairs in Kansas
Speech at Banquet in Honor of Chinese Embassy
Speech at Second Annual Meeting of Free Religious Association
Address at Opening of Concord Free Public Library
Address to Kossuth
Editors’ Address
Remarks at Organization of Free Religious Association
Other Essays
The Lord’s Supper
I. The authority of the rite
II. This is the question of expediency
Thoughts on Modern Literature
Boat Song
Walter Savage Landor
Glory
The Senses and the Soul
Transcendentalism
Prayers
Fourierism and the Socialists
Chardon Street and Bible Conventions
Agriculture of Massachusetts
Harvard University
English Reformers
Europe and European Books
The Tragic
Past and Present
War
Perpetual Forces
Demonology
The Preacher
Milton
Thoreau
Michael Angelo
Plutarch
Ezra Ripley, D. D
Mary Moody Emerson
Samuel Hoar
Carlyle
George L. Stearns
Saadi
American Civilization
The Fortune of the Republic
Aristocracy
The Superlative
The Sovereignty of Ethics
The Natural History of Intellect
I. Powers and Laws of Thought
II. Instinct and Inspiration
III. Memory
Character
Education
Art and Criticism
A Letter
Life and Letters in New England
Boston
Country Life
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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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