A Year with Emerson: A DaybookD.R. Godine, 2003 - 231 psl. Arranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America's great visionary and philosophical minds. "A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us." A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known throughout the world for his cogent, epigrammatic writing, admired as the "George Washington of American Literature," his work is even more enriching in bigger doses. Daily almanac entries present the heart of Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas and philosophy. Some were written on the very day in which they appear in the book, some are speculations and musings of the season and the natural world, but all are unfailingly wise, still relevant to our modern times. Emerson's mind ranged across the universe even as he traveled the length and breadth of the United States and Europe. With Emerson as a companion and guide, we meet the ideas and personalities he championed and encountered, from Lincoln to John Muir, from Carlyle to Montaigne, and, of course, the close New England circle of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the Alcotts. With company such as this, and the scope of Emerson's vision, you're sure to encounter rich food for thought every day of the year. |
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... matter , " since all matter is considered to be in an evolutionary state approaching consciousness . Then cometh the god , and converts the statues into fiery men , and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things ...
... Matter should correct the impression . Today at the cliff we held our villeggiatura [ county gath- ering ] . I saw nothing better than the passage of the river by the dark clump of trees that lined the bank in one spot for a short ...
... matter is not what it appears ; that chemistry can blow it all into gas . Faraday , the most exact of natural philosophers , taught that when we should arrive at the monads , or primordial elements ( the supposed little cubes or prisms ...