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The Conduct of Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Life is freedom,—life in the direct ratio of its amount. You may be sure, the new-born man is not inert. Life works both voluntarily and supernaturally in its neighborhood. Do you suppose, he can be estimated by his weight in pounds, or, that he is contained in his skin,—this reaching, radiating, jaculating fellow? The smallest candle fills a mile with its rays, and the papillæ of a man run out to every star.

When there is something to be done, the world knows how to get it done. The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp, root, bark, or thorn, as the need is; the first cell converts itself into stomach, mouth, nose, or nail, according to the want: the world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd; and puts him where he is wanted. Dante and Columbus were Italians, in their time: they would be Russians or Americans to-day. Things ripen, new men come. The adaptation is not capricious. The ulterior aim, the purpose beyond itself, t. . . Read More

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Emerson is America’s great Transcendental philosopher of nature. I’m not a nature lover, however. I don’t think more truths are to be had walking through a forest than walking down a city street. I don’t think nature is an unambiguous good, extolling lessons of virtue and justice. Nature, to me, is

No American author is greater at expressing an idea in a sentence than Ralph Waldo Emerson, I'd say.

What are his ideas and how does he express them? Emerson is the principal proponent of Transcendentalism, which can be profitably described as idealism -- where, cribbing from German Idealism, Platoni

作品集,整本书非常长:)爱默生是超验主义(强调人的主观能动性)和个人自由主义的代表人物。他对自己的总结是“In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.”他相信万事万物皆有神性。所有的作品其实都是围绕着”Human” and “Nature”两大主题。

“There is throughout nature something mocking, something that leads us on and on, but arrives nowhere, keep

Turns out Emerson is remembered for his best work. The collected work is interesting because it reveals more of the mind behind the essays, but the essays themselves feel more like a product of their time than bolts of genuine, timeless insight like his best pieces. He raises interesting questions a

“Our age is retrospective,” wrote Emerson. Emerson fought for individuals to trust the divine within and stop relying on past individuals to tell us what to do. “Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.” Fascinating read. I think I’m a T

In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of the deadness of its details. But it is open to graver criticism than the palsy of its members: it is a system of despair. The disease with which the human mind now labors, is want of faith. Men do not believe in a power of education. We do

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