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Book SynopsisTrade Review[T]he really striking fact about this volume is that not only is it a volume that will satisfy the scholar, it also is a volume that every layman who is at all interested in Emerson will want to read. * Chicago Sunday Tribune *
The task of editing these pieces [the lectures] for publication has been performed not only with scholarly care and thoroughness but with commendable taste and an eye to the needs of the ordinary literature reader as well as of the special scholar. A general introduction supplies just the amount of information about Emerson’s beginnings as a lyceum speaker that is required, and there are brief and useful introductions to the separate parts. The result is a really important addition to the corpus of Emerson’s works. No reader who cares seriously for the greatest of our wisdom-writers will wish to be without it… There is hardly a page of this volume, however, that is without an interest, and often an extreme interest, for the reader of Emerson. * New York Times *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Philosophy of History 1. Introductory 2. Humanity of Science 3. Art 4. Literature 5. Politics 6. Religion 7. Society 8. Trades and Professions 9. Manners 10. Ethics 11. The Present Age 12. The Individual 2. Address on Education (On Opening the Greene Street School, Providence, R. I., 10 June, 1837) 3. Human Culture 1. Introductory 2. Doctrine of the Hands 3. The Head 4. The Eye and Ear 5. The Heart 6. Being and Seeming 7. Prudence 8. Heroism 9. Holiness 10. General Views Bibliography of Principal Sources Textual Notes and Variant Passages Index
