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Ralph Waldo Emerson's second collection of essays appeared in 1844, when he was forty-one. It includes eight essays--"The Poet," "Experience," "Character," "Manners," "Gifts," "Nature," "Politics," and "Nominalist and Realist"--and one address, the much misunderstood "New... Read Full Overview

The present edition is a verbatim reproduction of Emerson's "Essays: Second Series", first published in 1844. These 12 essays, along with his "First Series," represent the core of Emerson's thinking, and the heart of Transcendentalism.Essays included are: "The Poet," "Experience,"... Read Full Overview

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Essays, Second Series is a classic collection of philosophy essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The great majority of men seem to be minors, who have not yet come into possession of their own, or mutes, who cannot report the conversation they have had with nature. There is no man... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

Essays: Second Series is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1844, concerning transcendentalism. It is the second volume of Emerson's Essays, the first being Essays: First Series. This book contains: "The Poet""Experience""Character""Manners""Gifts""Nature""Politics""Nominalist... Read Full Overview

If I have described life as a flux of moods, I must now add that there is that in us which changes not and which ranks all sensations and states of mind. The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of... Read Full Overview

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