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Reviewer: from America, Colorado
This book is the complete essays and lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It
contains everything you could want from Emerson, save his journals. His
writing is beauty in it's truest form. What he speaks is what you have
forever felt to be true. When he warns against self-distrust in
self-reliance you feel that he is not only speaking to you, but speaking for
you. Reading this book is not only seeing what he has written, but is a
demonstration of what he has written. When he writes in "self-reliance" of
the reoccurring situation where people have to take their truth from
another, the medium becomes the message. Emerson's work as presented in this
volume has been under rated by philosophical circles for years. Here you
will see that not only is he a great essayist, but that (while
unconventional) he is a great philosopher. |
