Representative Men

Representative Men

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: Cosimo Classics

Published: 1856

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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"Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great. Emerson was inspired by the Romantic belief that there exists a "general mind" that expresses itself with special intensity through certain individual lives. It reflects an appreciation of genius as a quality distributed to the few for the benefit of the many.


Representative Men

Representative Men

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-03-16

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0557351588

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Representative Men; Seven Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson. CONTENTS: Uses of Great Men -- Plato; or, The Philosopher; Plato: New Readings -- Swedenborg; or, The Mystic -- Montaigne; or, The Skeptic.--Shakespeare; or, The Poet -- Napoleon; or, The Man of the World -- Goethe; or, The Writer. Reproduction of 1894 Edition.


Representative Men

Representative Men

Author: R. W. Emerson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780265381731

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Excerpt from Representative Men: Seven Lectures The race goes with us on their credit. The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens. But enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting, like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of fleas, - the more, the worse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.