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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... spirit of the thing , to pass the brute body , and search the life and reason which causes it to exist ; - to see that the object is always flowing away , whilst the spirit or necessity which causes it subsists . Its essential mark is ...
... spirit , which is dif- ferently named love , justice , temperance , in its different applications , just as the ocean receives different names on the several shores on which it washes . All things proceed out of the same spirit , and ...
... spirit . The ground occupied by the skeptic is the vestibule of the tem- ple . Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order . But the interrogation of cus- tom at all points is in an inevitable stage ...