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Nature (1836)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Table of Contents
559411Nature — Table of Contents1836Ralph Waldo Emerson

NATURE.




"Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know."

Plotinus
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BOSTON:

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

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Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1836,
By James Munroe & Co.
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.




Cambridge Press:
Metcalf, Torry, &, Ballou.

CONTENTS.


Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

CHAPTER I.

Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

CHAPTER II.

Commodity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

CHAPTER III.

Beauty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

CHAPTER IV.

Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

CHAPTER V.

Discipline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

CHAPTER VI.

Idealism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

CHAPTER VII.

Spirit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

CHAPTER VIII.

Prospects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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