Essays
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Emerson’s first collection of essays, including “Self-Reliance”, “Compensation”, “Circles” and “The Over-Soul”, the fullest statement of his teaching on the universal mind present in each person, and of the self-trust that follows from it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Essays: First Series. James Munroe and Company, Boston, 1841.
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