Vol XII – Natural History of the Intellect (1893)
Natural History of Intellect  The Celebration of Intellect  Country Life  Concord Walks  Michael Angelo  Boston  Milton Art and Criticism
Volume XII, Natural History of the Intellect, was published by Emerson’s editor and first biographer, James Elliot Cabot. The lectures in this volume were begun in England, worked on over the years, repeated during a Harvard course in 1871 and finally published in 1893, after Emerson’s death. The essays are particularly important for a complete understanding of Emerson’s view of the mind and his ongoing interest in the nature of consciousness.
Natural History of Intellect  The Celebration of Intellect  Country Life  Concord Walks  Michael Angelo  Boston  Milton Art and Criticism
I Framed his tongue to music, I armed his hand with skill, I moulded his face to beauty, And his heart the throne of will. MILTON.' The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise " Of the Christian…
Never did sculptor’s dream unfold A form which marble doth not hold In its white block; yet it therein shall find Only the hand secure and bold Which still obeys the mind. MICHAEL ANGELO’s Sonnets Non ha l’ ottimo artista…
BOSTON. " We are citizens of two fair cities," said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, " and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine." "And I," replied the artist, " if I were…
Concord Walks
The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger, a love of possessing land. It is nor less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor…
Celebration of Intellect (delivered at Harvard in 1870)
NATURAL HISTORY OF INTELLECT.Ralph Waldo Emerson I. Powers and Laws of Thought I have used such opportunity as I have had, and lately in London and Paris, to attend scientific lectures; and in listening to Richard Owen’s masterly enumeration of…