Self-Reliance and Other Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson · 12 Oct 1993 · 62pp · 13,939 words
like to suggest a riff for a future edition, please visit our website. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803—1882 Self-Reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson p. cm. ISBN: 978-1-936719-10-5 Self-Reliance RALPH WALDO EMERSON I reread Self-Reliance a few times a year. It’s always on my bedside table and I’ve done
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-reliant folks in Seattle, including Mary Ellen Fullhart, Sarah Gelman, Terry Goodman, Victoria Griffith, Megan Jacobsen, Galen Maynard, Lynette Mong, Sarah Tomashek, and Alan Turkus. Ralph Waldo Emerson may be long dead, but he’s a role model for many of us (not the dead part, of course). The idea that one can
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
by Christopher Lasch · 16 Sep 1991 · 669pp · 226,737 words
original sin. In the nineteenth century, a time when the progress of human ingenuity seemed to promise a decisive victory over fate, Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, latter-day Calvinists without a Calvinist theology, reminded their readers that human beings did not control their own fate. They argued, in effect, that fate
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of Christian prophecy, as reformulated by Calvin and his followers and, in the nineteenth century, by moral philosophers and social critics—notably Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson— in whom Calvinism remained a powerful background presence. No longer Calvinists or even Christians in any formal sense, Emerson and Carlyle nevertheless reasserted a prophetic
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for purposes not their own. Heroism is thus the reverse of "self-expression"—voluntary, hence triumphant, submission. * Emerson in His Contemporaries' Eyes: Stoic and "Seer" Ralph Waldo Emerson introduced Sartor Resartus to the American public and made no secret of his lifelong admiration for its author. Carlyle returned the compliment. "'In the wide
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of Emerson's contemporaries were troubled by what they took to be his fatalism. A more manageable compilation, Milton R. Konvitz, ed., The Recognition of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972), ranges from the earliest commentaries to the latest critical opinion at the time of its publication. For the genteel view of Emerson, see also
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the I950s and early I960s understood this much at least, even if their work—notably Stephen E. Whicher, Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1953), and Jonathan Bishop, Emerson on the Soul (1964)—misleadingly described the direction of Emerson's career as a falling away from affirmation to resignation
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski · 2 Jan 1990 · 490pp · 150,172 words
History, Manufacture, and Use by The Koh-I-Noor Pencil Company. Reprinted courtesy of Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph, Inc. Correspondence between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Caroline Sturgis quoted by permission of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association and of the Houghton Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Petroski, Henry. The pencil: a history of
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brought; without it he could not make his list. Without a pencil Thoreau would have been lost in the Maine woods. According to his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau seems always to have carried, “in his pocket, his diary and pencil.” So why did Thoreau—who had worked with his father to produce
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without the talents or inclination to “practice engineering” by working out the details of a solution for a machine to produce finer graphite. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s son, Edward, who was a young friend of Thoreau, the solution consisted in having a “narrow churn-like chamber around the mill-stones prolonged
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brothers to close their school in 1841, and shortly thereafter Henry moved into the Emerson household, where he would stay for two years, conversing with Ralph Waldo Emerson, doing odd jobs around the house, and entertaining the Emerson children. As Edward Waldo Emerson would recall later, after Thoreau told them stories, “He would
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, Engineer, Architect, and Artists Generally.” By 1844 Thoreau pencils were apparently as good as any to be had, whether of domestic or foreign manufacture, and Ralph Waldo Emerson thought enough of them to send some to his friend Caroline Sturgis in Boston. An exchange of letters in that year tells the tale: Concord
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be run again. Apply to HENRY D. THOREAU. This side of Thoreau was as integral a part of his character as any other. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a land surveyor naturally because of “his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him, the size of trees
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every man, woman, and child in the world to use for writing and figuring. The simple physical artifact multiplies the power of the individual. When Ralph Waldo Emerson wished to describe the body as opposed to the mind of Thoreau, the essayist marveled over the “wonderful fitness” of the physical and mental abilities
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are given in the Bibliography. CHAPTER 1 What We Forget 1 list of essential supplies: Thoreau, Maine Woods, pp. 839–40. 2 “in his pocket”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Thoreau,” p. 244. 3 scribers to mark: Bealer, pp. 103–4. 4 “one dozen Middleton’s”: Oliver Hubbard, p. 153. 5 English pencils: Oliver Hubbard
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his Journal: Thoreau, Journal, Vol. I, p. 592. 28 exchange journal passages: Thoreau, Journal, Vol. I, p. 594. 29 carried his diary and pencil: cf. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Thoreau,” p. 244. 30 “He would make our pencils”: Edward Emerson, p. 3. 31 a memorial tribute: Meltzer and Harding, p. 49. 32 “improvements in
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ascertaining”: see New York Review of Books, January 15, 1987, p. 48 62 “he could pace”: Edward Emerson, p. 242. 63 “I so much regret”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Thoreau,” p. 248. CHAPTER 10 When the Best Is Not Good Enough 1 “a copious table”: Whittock, title page. 2 “plumbago, is a dark”: Whittock
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, p. 22 (letter), and March 6, 1952, p. 45. 3 Camp Fire Girls: New York Times, July 19, 1947, p. 16. 4 “He could estimate”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Thoreau,” p. 242. 5 “Emerson spoke”: Hosmer, in Hendrick, p. 11. 6 “One of the needs”: Elbert Hubbard, p. 23. 7 “This is merely a
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one volume.] New York, 1985. Thoreau Society Bulletin. “A Lead Pencil Diploma …” No. 74 (Winter 1961): 7–8. Thoreau’s Pencils: An Unpublished Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Caroline Sturgis, 19 May 1844. Cambridge, Mass., 1944. Tichi, Cecelia. Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1987. Timmins
Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
by Garson O'Toole · 1 Apr 2017 · 376pp · 91,192 words
of quotations. A gas station attendant with the nickname Socrates has the same name as the famous philosopher Socrates. Harrington Emerson might be confused for Ralph Waldo Emerson; the songwriter Poe could be mistaken for the horror master Edgar Allan Poe. CONCOCTIONS It is difficult to prove that a misquotation or misattribution was
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in Google Books, https://goo.gl/48YXPq. QI believes that an exact match for the expression above has not been found in the oeuvre of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Yet, Emerson did write a thematically related remark:1 To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road
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on this topic. This question was constructed by QI based on his inquiry. Also, thanks to Dan Goncharoff for noting the relevant quotation due to Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Essay II: Experience,” in Essays: Second Series, 2nd ed. (Boston: James Munroe, 1844), 65. Accessed in Google Books, https://goo.gl/gQHb0V. 2. Charles
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to either Shakespeare or Picasso. An interesting, thematically related statement to this quote was included in an 1843 essay titled “Gifts” by the prominent lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson. In the piece, Emerson argued that a gift is only worthwhile if it is integrally related to the gift giver:1 Rings and jewels are
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it. Notes: Great thanks to Lucinda Critchley, Laurelyn Collins, and Obsidian Eagle, whose inquiries led QI to formulate this question and perform this exploration. 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Gifts,” Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy and Religion 4, no. 1 (July 1843): 93. Accessed in Google Books, https://goo.gl/TTXDVb. 2. David
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the capability of paying back, you are actually stealing. In 1990 then US secretary of state James Baker ascribed the maxim to the famous transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson.22 Emerson, the 19th century American essayist and poet, put it this way: “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it
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Ralph Keyes wrote in The Quote Verifier:1 This quotation is especially beloved by coaches, valedictorians, eulogists, and Oprah Winfrey. It usually gets attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. No evidence can be found that Emerson said or wrote these words. The earliest appearance of this adage located by QI is in a 1940
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quotation propagators from fabricating attributions. The maxim has been assigned to the introduction writer Nock, the head of the publishing house William Morrow, and even Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. In 1947 the New York Times revealed the author’s identity—Henry S. Haskins, a man with a colorful and controversial
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for decades.10 In 1980 the president of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, attributed the saying to Ralph Waldo Emerson:11 Cal Poly president Hugh La Bounty said at the awards banquet that some lines from Ralph Waldo Emerson best summed up the Scolinos philosophy and the team performance that exemplified it: “What lies behind us
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the infernal regions with a parade of notables filing by. Partly by their verisimilitude [sic], partly by their initials, I recognize Napoleon, Goethe, Charles Darwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ingersoll, P. T. Barnum, Robert Burns, Benjamin Franklin, Brigham Young, Tom Paine and Voltaire. George Sand, Mme. Pompadour and la Du Barry are labelled
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
by Peter Marshall · 2 Jan 1992 · 1,327pp · 360,897 words
Individualism’ with a search for a creative life close to nature finds echoes in the counter-culture and Green movements of the late-twentieth century. Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson was the elder guru of the Transcendentalists of New England. After Harvard University, he entered the ministry, only to abandon it and sail to Europe
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Gaol’ (1896), The Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins, c. 1933), p. 197 Chapter Fourteen 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Politics’ (1844), The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Brooks Atkinson (New York: Modern Library, 1940), p. 430; Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. E. W. Emerson & W. E. Forbes (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1909–14), III, 200
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2 Journals, op. cit., V, 302–3 3 The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Ralph L. Rusk (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), I, pp. 412–13 4 Emerson to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1855, quoted by Justin
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: Black Rose, 1976) Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Journals, eds. E. W. Emerson & W. E. Forbes, (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1909–14) Emerson, Ralph Waldo, The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Ralph L. Rusk, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939) Emerson, Ralph Waldo, The Complete Essays and other Writings, ed. Brooks Atkinson (New York: Modern
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
by Alec Nevala-Lee · 1 Aug 2022 · 864pp · 222,565 words
domain Margaret Fuller became known as the most widely read person in New England, and she had a tumultuous friendship with the poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, to whom she said, “I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.” Emerson was
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spent hours “gluing their fingers into tortured geometrical configurations,” and Fuller himself was praised as a great thinker on the level of Lao-tzu and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1968 a writer named David Cole Gordon had urged Fuller to pay a visit to Synanon. “Chuck has installed a hobby-size workshop on
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. “wonderful child”: Marshall, Margaret Fuller, 24. “nearsightedness, awkward manners”: Ibid., 25. “no natural childhood”: Ibid., 21. “And, even then”: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, ed. Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. H. Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, vol. 1 (Boston: Emerson, Sampson, 1852), 141. “We shall go to him”: RBF, notes on family Bible, November
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”: Ibid. “It was such an awful joke”: Donna Dickenson, Margaret Fuller: Writing a Woman’s Life (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1993), 32. “the tendency to respect”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Transcendentalist.” “But if you ask me”: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, in The Portable Margaret Fuller, ed. Mary Kelley (New York: Penguin
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: Modern Library, 1994), 47. “I must start with the universe”: AMS, 12. “Chiefly the seashore”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Civilization.” “The line of beauty”: Ibid., “Beauty.” “Swedenborg approximated”: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 297. “The genius which”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Swedenborg,” Representative Men. “This man, who appeared”: Ibid. “a freak”: Samuel Rosenberg, The Confessions of
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
by Phillip Lopate · 12 Feb 2013 · 207pp · 64,598 words
included here a long list of exemplary books old and new. I have also included a series of literary case studies—Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Baldwin, and Edward Hoagland—to explore how nonfiction theory works in practice. Some of these pieces were commissioned or requested; they may have gotten
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as a given that personal essayists must examine their prejudices and instinctual aversions as starting points for any honest analysis of their characters and views. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a notebook entry for October 14, 1834, wrote, “Every involuntary repulsion that arises in your mind give heed unto. It is the surface of
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it is, to my mind, a great one. How I Became an Emersonian For several months I have been camping out in the mind of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is a companionable, familiar, and yet endlessly stimulating place and, since his mind is stronger than mine, I keep deferring to his wisdom, even
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the Library of America, and decided to give it a whirl. Some 1,800 pages later, I am in thrall to, in love with, Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson. If this sounds homoerotic, so be it. I think of a peculiar passage about love in his journals that says that in embracing the worth
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Elia and The Last Essays of Elia William Hazlitt: Selected Essays Leigh Hunt: Essays, Autobiography Thomas De Quincey: Selected Essays Charles Dickens: Sketches from Boz Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays Robert Louis Stevenson: The Lantern Bearers and Other Essays Oscar Wilde: De Profundis, Selected Essays Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy Walter Pater: The Renaissance
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Adorno: Minima Moralia Diaries and Notebooks Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book Kenko: Essays in Idleness Samuel Pepys: The Diary of Samuel Pepys James Boswell: Journals Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Notebooks Edmond and Jules de Goncourt: Journals George Templeton Strong: The Diaries Franz Kafka: Diaries Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank Victor Klemperer
Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy
by Michael Knox Beran · 2 Aug 2021 · 800pp · 240,175 words
likely to kill themselves than kill others. Suicide blighted whole families. There were the Sturgises, an old Boston family with a “tendency to suicidal mania.” Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke of his horror when, in June 1853, he heard the “dismal tidings” that young Susan Sturgis Bigelow had swallowed arsenic: three of Susan’s
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of despair, like those in the Inferno. For the poetry of the WASPs is, Eliot thinks, inadequate, and their prophets are false. Matthew Arnold and Ralph Waldo Emerson wanted to liberate potential, but their books now rest on glazen shelves: “Matthew and Waldo” are for Eliot guardians of a faith that has failed
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to suicidal mania”: Natalie Dykstra, Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2012), 210. “dismal tidings”: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1852–1855, ed. Ralph H. Orth and Alfred R. Ferguson (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1977), 177. “the family disease”: John Sedgwick, In My Blood: Six
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weak.” Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, 76. “anæmic incompleteness”: Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, 72. “I prize my friends”: Emerson, “Friendship,” in Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (London: Walter Scott, 1888), 146. “Good fences”: And yet we find Emerson himself lamenting “how unfavorable” his “daily habits and solitude” were for friendship, and
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by William Cronon · 2 Nov 2009 · 918pp · 260,504 words
could take a day to travel less than a dozen miles.8 Conditions like these were a trial for even the most leisurely travelers. When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited Chicago in the winter of 1853, he began to wonder whether he should have made the trip at all. “In the prairie,” he wrote
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: wild nature was less an unpeopled landscape than an unworked one, and the “poet’s” relationship to it was intrinsically that of a leisured class. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature in Essays and Lectures (1983), 42; Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (1973). 14.Garland, Rose of Dutcher’s Cooley, 183. 15.Charles
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& Loan Association, Statistical and Historical Review of Chicago, 37. 7.Peyton, Over the Alleghanies, 327. 8.Cleaver, History of Chicago, 80. 9.The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Ralph L. Rusk (1939), 4:342. 10.Hough, “Prehistoric Great Lakes,” 84–109; and Hough, Geology of the Great Lakes. 11.Carter, “Facts and
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Honor of Paul Wallace Gates. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1969. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays and Lectures. New York: Library of America, 1983. ———. The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by Ralph L. Rusk. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1939. Emery, Henry Crosby. Speculation on the Stock and Produce Exchanges of the United States
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words
ditch and to drudge, to make corn cheap, and then to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.[2] —Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860 The sedimentation of coral reefs in the process of transforming into limestone lie atop the compacted deposits of thousands of years of guano—the
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labor history as a climate history. Why haven’t the voices of the oppressed who refused to become fertilizer themselves been amplified? Too much guano. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his notes on nineteenth century labor, “too much guano,” and then crossed it out. As Nell Irvin Painter, a renowned scholar of U
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the Industrial Revolution. The eco-politics of every labor struggle is a climate struggle. In the nineteenth century, at the peak of U.S. colonialism, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s guano rhetoric paralleled contemporary currents of white supremacy in the name of environmentalism. In his 1860 speech “Fate,” Emerson mentioned how “[t]he German
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Park. Sitting near Edgar Allan Poe’s rock on West Eighty-Third Street, I took the sighting as an omen—a good one, I hoped. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote of “birds with auguries on their wings.” What are the signs on these birds’ wings? Are they the harbingers of the climate crisis? Birding
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5. Guano Destinies Alan Fram and Jonathan Lemire, “Trump: Why Allow Immigrants from ‘Shithole Countries’?,” AP News, January 12, 2018. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Fate,” in The Conduct of Life (1860). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2 C. L. R. James, “Revolution and the Negro,” Marxists Internet Archive, https://www
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