EMBRACING

NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES.

BY

R. W. EMERSON.

BOSTON:

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY.

M.DCCC.LVIII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

CONTENTS.

NATURE

THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. AN ORATION BEFORE

THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE,

AUGUST 31, 1837

75

AN ADDRESS TO THE SENIOR CLASS IN DIVINITY

COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, JULY 15, 1838,

113

LITERARY ETHICS. AN ADDRESS TO THE LITERARY

SOCIETIES IN Dartmouth COLLEGE, JULY 24, 1838

THE METHOD OF NATURE. AN ADDRESS TO THE

SOCIETY OF THE ADELPHI, IN WATERVILLE COL-

LEGE, MAINE, AUGUST 11, 1841

MAN THE REFORMER. A LECTURE READ BEFORE

THE MECHANICS' APPRENTICES' LIBRARY ASSOCIA-

TION, BOSTON, January 25, 1841

INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ON THE TIMES. READ

147

181

217

IN THE MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, DEC. 2, 1841 249

THE CONSERVATIVE.

A LECTURE READ IN THE

MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, DECEMBER 9, 1841

283

THE TRANSCENDENTALIST. A LECTURE READ IN

THE MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, JANUARY, 1842. € 317

THE YOUNG AMERICAN. A LECTURE READ TO

THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON,

FEBRUARY 7, 1844

349

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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