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  2. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

  3. 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.

  4. Nature (essay) - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of Emerson's transparent eyeball metaphor in "Nature" by Christopher Pearse Cranch, ca. 1836-1838. Emerson uses spirituality as a major theme in the essay. Emerson believed in re-imagining the divine as something large and visible, which he referred to as nature; such an idea is known as transcendentalism, in which one perceives a new God and a new body, and becomes one with his ...

  5. The Conduct of Life - Wikipedia

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    Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as "the writer's best book" [12] and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best. The Knickerbocker praised it for its "healthy tone" and called it "the most practical of Mr. Emerson's works," [13] while The Atlantic Monthly attested that "literary ease and flexibility do not always advance with an author ...

  6. Transcendental humanism - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist, poet and philosopher best known for his contribution to the transcendentalism movement of the mid-19th century. [22] Emerson's spiritual transcendentalism re-emerged in New England following Kant's rational transcendentalism.

  7. Carlyle–Emerson correspondence - Wikipedia

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    The Carlyle–Emerson correspondence is a series of letters written between Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) from 14 May 1834 to 20 June 1873. It has been called "one of the classic documents of nineteenth-century literature."

  8. Politics (essay) - Wikipedia

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    Politics" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is part of his Essays: Second Series, published in 1844. A premier philosopher, poet and leader of American transcendentalism, he used this essay to belie his feelings on government, specifically American government.

  9. Excursions (anthology) - Wikipedia

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    Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.The anthology contains an introduction entitled "Biographical Sketch" in which fellow transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a description of Thoreau.