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(0)Ralph Waldo Emerson
1) Nature
"The American Scholar" was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College at the First Parish in Cambridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work Nature, published a year earlier, in which he established a new way for America's fledgling society to regard the world. Sixty years after declaring independence,
..."The Transcendentalist" is a lecture and essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine of American Transcendentalism. The lecture was read at the Masonic Temple in Boston, Massachusetts in January 1842.
The work begins by contrasting materialists and idealists. Emerson laments the absence of "old idealists." He goes on to outline the fundamental beliefs and characteristics
...A personal testament to the life and times of one of America's great naturalists and literary figures - less a biography than an essay in defense of Thoreau by one of his closest friends. This moving, sensitive and charmingly written remembrance offers valuable insights into the life of a remarkable man. (From Google Books)
17) The Conservative
A Lecture delivered at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1841
Excerpt:
"The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. This quarrel is the subject of civil history. The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world. The battle of patrician
...Read at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 2, 1841
Excerpt:
"The times, as we say -- or the present aspects of our social state, theral Science, Agriculture, Art, Trade, Letters, have their root in an invisible spiritual reality. To appear in these aspects, they must first exist, or have some necessary foundation. Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason
...19) Literary Ethics
An Oration delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838.
20) Man The Reformer
A Lecture read before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841
Excerpt:
"Mr. President, and Gentlemen,
I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on the particular and general relations of man as a reformer. I shall assume that the aim of each young man in this association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind. Let it be granted, that our life, as we
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