Ralph Waldo Emerson

From a photograph taken in 1874

BY

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1867 and 1876,

BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Copyright, 1883 and 1895,

BY EDWARD W. EMERSON.

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