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• Nature.
• Introduction.
• Nature.
• Chapter I.
• Chapter II.: Commodity.
• Chapter III.: Beauty.
• Chapter IV.: Language.
• Chapter V.: Discipline.
• Chapter VI.: Idealism.
• Chapter VII.: Spirit.
• Chapter VIII.: Prospects.
• The American Scholar. an Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, At Cambridge, August 31, 1837.
• An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class In Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838.
• Literary Ethics. an Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838.
• The Method of Nature. an Oration Delivered Before the Society of the Adelphi In Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841.
• Man the Reformer. a Lecture Read Before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841.
• Lecture On the Times. Read At the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 2, 1841.
• The Conservative. a Lecture Delivered At the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1841
• The Transcendentalist. a Lecture Read At the Masonic Temple, Boston, January, 1842.
• The Young American. a Lecture Read Before the Mercantile Library Association, Boston, February 7, 1844.

Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1854

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NATURE.

• A subtle chain of countless rings
• The next unto the farthest brings;
• The eye reads omens where it goes,
• And speaks all languages the rose;
• And, striving to be man, the worm
• Mounts through all the spires of form.