might be welcome, gathered from the journals, the correspondence, reminiscences, and works written about him. In supplying the notes I have had to rely on my own judgment. The pressure due to the late undertaking of the work has prevented my revising and condensing them. Remembering that notes seem to many readers an interruption and even an impertinence, they have been placed at the end of each volume. Repetitions occur, because a reader who wishes information cannot search all the volumes. The occurrence of the same thought or expression in the prose and poems has been pointed out. I thankfully acknowledge the help of friends in finding the more unusual quotations. I also gratefully recognize the help received from the works of various writers about my father. EDWARD WALDO EMERSON. CONCORD, April 8th, 1903. An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa AN ADDRESS 117 Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity Col- LITERARY ETHICS 153 An Oration delivered before the Literary Societies 189 THE METHOD OF NATURE An Oration delivered before the Society of the Adel- MAN THE REFORMER A Lecture read before the Mechanics' Apprentices' 225 LECTURE ON THE TIMES 257 Read at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December THE CONSERVATIVE 293 A Lecture read at the Masonic Temple, Boston, THE TRANSCENDENTALIST A Lecture read at the Masonic Temple, Boston, 327 January, 1842. THE YOUNG AMERICAN A Lecture read before the Mercantile Library Asso- 361 NOTES The portrait prefixed to this volume is from a da- 397 |