Biographical Sketch by Emerson's son, Edward Waldo Emerson
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A TIMELESSLiterary Classic by RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
Essays: First Series by AMERICAN author RALPH WALDO EMERSON is a book of essays first published in 1841 in the UNITED STATES.
Twelve classic essays in this volume, from America's philosopher of transcendentalism, are: History: Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art.
Sneak Peak '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.' Title Details
