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IV - Representative Men

In Representative Men Emerson explores the theme of "The Uses of Great Men" and in that introductory essay, he deals with the important issue of the differences between genius and so-called "ordinary" persons. He was a great beliver in the idea that "There is one mind common to all individual men" and that "in every work of genious we recognize our own rejected thoughts."

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Goethe; or, the Writer
Ralph Waldo Emerson - RWE.org
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Montaigne; or, the Skeptic
Ralph Waldo Emerson - RWE.org
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Napoleon; or, the Man of the World
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Plato; or, the Philosopher
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Shakspeare; or, the Poet
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Swedenborg; or, the Mystic
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Uses of Great Men
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