Category: Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

ESSAY VIII Nominalist and Realist

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet … Read the rest

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

ESSAY VII Politics

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institution are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born: that they are not superior to the citizen: that every one … Read the rest

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

What right have I to write ont of the negative sort? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without, not in the inventing of means and methods, not in adroit steering, not in gentle repairing. I … Read the rest

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ne te qusiveris extra.”

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what … Read the rest

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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By RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

BOSTON:
JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.
1838.

CAMBRIDGE PRESS:

METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU.

ADDRESS.

In this refulgent summer it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life. The grass grows, … Read the rest

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

ESSAY II Experience

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs … Read the rest

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we … Read the rest

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essay V Gifts

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay, and ought to go into chancery, and be sold. … Read the rest

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Mahomet.

In the elder English drama teacher, there is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behaviour were as easily marked in the society of their age, as color is in our American … Read the rest

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 … Read the rest