This volume opens with Nature, the 1836 manifesto of New England Transcendentalism, with its chapters on commodity, beauty, language, discipline, idealism and spirit. It goes on to the great early orations: The American Scholar, the address to the Harvard divinity students that scandalized his elders, Literary Ethics and other lectures.
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