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NATURE AND SELECTED ESSAYS - RALPH WALDO EMERSO...

An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophyThrough his writing and his own
personal philosophy  Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional
sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His
mandate  which called for harmony with  rather than domestication of  nature  and for a
reliance on individual integrity  rather than on materialistic institutions  is echoed in many
of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours  and has given an
impetus to modern political and social activism.Larzer Ziff's introduction to this collection
of fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the important backdrop to the
society in which Emerson lived during his formative years.For more than seventy years  Penguin
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