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  2. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to ...

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    Image of a guillotine-style mousetrap seller in the mid-19th century. In February 1855, Emerson wrote in his journal, under the heading "Common Fame": If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  3. The American Scholar - Wikipedia

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    Emerson introduces Transcendentalist and Romantic views to explain an American scholar's relationship to nature. A few key points he makes include: A few key points he makes include: We are all fragments, "as the hand is divided into fingers", of a greater creature, which is mankind itself.

  4. Compensation (essay) - Wikipedia

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    "Compensation" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It appeared in his book Essays , first published in 1841. [ 1 ] In 1844, Essays: Second Series was published, and subsequent editions of Essays were renamed Essays: First Series .

  5. Essays (Emerson) - Wikipedia

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    Emerson later wrote several more books of essays including Representative Men, English Traits, The Conduct of Life and Society and Solitude. Emerson's first published essay, Nature, was published in 1836, before the first and second series.

  6. Essays: Second Series - Wikipedia

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    Essays: Second Series is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1844, concerning transcendentalism. It is the second volume of Emerson's Essays, the first being Essays: First Series. This book contains: "The Poet" "Experience" "Character" "Manners" "Gifts" "Nature" "Politics" "Nominalist and Realist" "New England Reformers"

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  9. Essays: First Series - Wikipedia

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    Many noted the influence of Thomas Carlyle.An anonymous English reviewer voiced the mainstream view when he wrote that the author of the book "out-Carlyles Carlyle himself," "imitat[ing] his inflations, his verbiage, his Germanico-Kantian abstractions, his metaphysics and mysticism."