Emerson, Ralph Waldo , 1803-1882

Selected essays / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; edited with an introduction by Larzer Ziff - Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books , 1982. - 415 p. ; 18 cm. - The Penguin American library .

Bibliography: p. 29-30.

Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than the domestication of, nature, and for reliance on individual integrity rather than on materialistic institutions.

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American Philosophy

PS1602 / .Z5 1982

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