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"Standing on the bare ground--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space--all mean egotism vanishes," Emerson wrote in Nature, his statement of the principles of transcendentalism.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. What can you say about the guy? One of the leading American thinkers who beautifully captures the American spirit in his prose. From the must-read essay Self-Reliance to eulogies on outstanding contemporaries such as Henry David Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, this collection of Emerson’s work is a must for any library.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. What can you say about the guy? One of the leading American thinkers who beautifully captures the American spirit in his prose. From the must-read essay Self-Reliance to eulogies on outstanding contemporaries such as Henry David Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, this collection of Emerson’s work is a must for any library.