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I – Nature, Addresses & Lectures Nature Nature- Introduction Chapter I – Nature Chapter II – Commodity Chapter III – Beauty Chapter IV – Language Chapter V – Discipline Chapter VI – Idealism Chapter VII – Spirit Chapter VIII – Prospects Addresses & Lectures The American Scholar Divinity School Address Literary Ethics The Method of Nature Man the Reformer Introductory Lecture on the Times The Conservative The Transcendentalist The Young American   II – Essays I I History II Self-Reliance III Compensation IV Spiritual Laws V Love VI Friendship VII Prudence VIII Heroism IV The Over-Soul X Circles XI Intellect XII Art III – Essays II I The Poet II Experience III Character IV Manners V Gifts VI Nature VII Politics VIII Nominalist and Realist IX New England Reformers V Gifts IV – Representative Men Uses of Great Men Plato or the Philosopher Swedenborg or the Mystic Montaigne or the Skeptic Shakespeare or the Poet Napoleon or the Man of the World Goethe or the Writer V – English Traits Chapter I First Visit to England Chapter II Voyage to England Chapter III Land Chapter IV Race Chapter V Ability Chapter VI Manners Chapter VII Truth Chapter VIII Character Chapter IX Cockayne Chapter X Wealth Chapter XI Aristocracy Chapter XII Universities Chapter XIII Religion Chapter XIV Literature Chapter XV The Times Chapter XVI Stonehenge Chapter XVII Personal Chapter XVIII Result Chapter XIX Speech at Manchester VI – Conduct of Life I Fate II Power III Wealth IV Culture V Behavior VI Worship VII Considerations by the Way VIII Beauty IX Illusions VII – Society and Solitude Chapter I Society and Solitude Chapter II Civilization Chapter III Art Chapter IV Eloquence Chapter V Domestic Life Chapter VI Farming Chapter VII Works and Days Chapter VIII Books Chapter IX Clubs Chapter X Courage Chapter XI Success Chapter XII Old Age

VIII – Letters and Social Aims Poetry and Imagination Social Aims Eloquence Resources The Comic Quotation and Originality Progress of Culture Persian Poetry Inspiration Greatness Immortality IX – Poems Poems X – Lectures & Biographical Sketches Demonology Aristocracy Perpetual Forces Education The Superlative The Sovereignty of Ethics The Preacher The Man of Letters The Scholar Plutarch Life and Letters in New England Ezra Ripley, D. D. Chardon Street Convention Mary Moody Emerson Samuel Hoar Thoreau Carlyle George L. Stearns Character XI – Miscellanies I – XV I The Lord’s Supper II Historical Discourse at Concord III Letter to President Van Buren IV Emancipation in the British West Indies V War VI The Fugitive Slave Law – Concord VII VIII The Assault upon Mr. Sumner IX Speech on Affairs in Kansas X John Brown–Speech at Boston XI John Brown–Speech at Salem XII Theodore Parker XIII American Civilization XIV The Emancipation Proclamation XV Abraham Lincoln XVI – XXX XVI Harvard Commemoration Speech XVII Dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument XVIII Editors’ Address XIX Address to Kossuth XX Woman XXI Consecration-Sleepy Hollow Cemetery XXII Robert Burns XXIII Shakspeare XXIV. Humboldt XXV Walter Scott XXVI Speech at Banquet in Honor of Chinese Embassy XXVII Remarks at Organization of Free Religious Association XXVIII Speech at 2nd Free Religious Assoc XXIX Address at Opening of Concord Free Public Library XXIX Address Concord Free Public Library XXX The Fortune of the Republic XII – Natural History of Intellect Natural History of Intellect The Celebration of Intellect Country Life Concord Walks Boston Michael Angelo Milton Art and Criticism Additional Material Papers From the Dial I Thoughts on Modern Literature II Walter Savage Landor III Prayers IV Agriculture in Massachusetts V Europe and Europeon Books VI Past and Present VII A Letter VIII The Tragic Selected Bibliography on Emerson