The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Elliot Cabot

Overview

This volume contains a selection of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's foremost thinkers and writers. Known for his essays, lectures, and poems, Emerson was a central figure in the transcendentalist movement, advocating for individualism, self-reliance, and the inherent goodness of people and nature. His works explore themes of spirituality, morality, and the relationship between humanity and the natural world. This collection offers readers a comprehensive look at Emerson's intellectual contributions and lasting impact on American literature and thought.

Edited by James Elliot Cabot, this volume provides valuable context and insight into Emerson's life and work. Readers will appreciate the depth and breadth of Emerson's ideas, which continue to resonate with contemporary audiences. "The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 3" is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature, philosophy, or the history of ideas.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781024054422
Publisher:	Hutson Street Press
Publication date:	05/22/2025
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.59(d)

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CHAPTER III. LAND. Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in; the former, because there nature vindicates her rights, and triumphs over the evils inflicted by the governments; the latter, because art conquers nature, and transforms a rude, ungenial land into a paradise of comfort and plenty. England is a garden. Under an ash-coloured sky, the fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough. The solidity of the structures that compose the towns speaks the industry of ages. Nothing is left as it was made. Rivers, hills, valleys, the sea itself, feel the hand of a master. The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land to its best use, has found all the capabilities, the arable soil, the quarriable rock, the highways, the byways, the fords, the navigable waters; and the new arts of intercourse meet you everywhere; so that England is a huge phalanstery, where all that man wants is provided within the precinct. Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller rides as on acannon-ball, high and low, over rivers and towns, through mountains, in tunnels of three or four miles, at near twice the speed of our trains; and reads quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and reporting, seems to have machi- nised the rest of the world for his occasion. The problem of the traveller landing at Liverpool is, Why England is England ? What are the elements of that power which the English hold over other nations? If there be one test of national genius universally accepted, it is success; and if there be one successful country in the universe for thelast millennium, that country is England. A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit ...