Representative Men: Seven Lectures - Including: Uses of Great Men, Plato or the Philosopher, Swedenborg or the Mystic, Montaigne or the Skeptic, ... Man of the World AND Goethe or the Writer
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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- 0979311969
- ISBN 13
- 9780979311963
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From the book:IT IS NATURAL to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal it would not surprise us. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic; that is, their genius is paramount. In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet. Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society; and, actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors. We call our children and our lands by their names. Their names are wrought into the verbs of language, their works and effigies are in our houses, and every circumstance of the day recalls an anecdote of them.
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- Title
- Representative Men: Seven Lectures - Including: Uses of Great Men, Plato or the Philosopher, Swedenborg or the Mystic, Montaigne or the Skeptic, ... Man of the World AND Goethe or the Writer
- Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 30
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0979311969
- ISBN 13
- 9780979311963
- Publisher
- BN Publishing
- This edition first published
- 2008-04
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