HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIORAS

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COPYRIGHT, 1955 AND 1876.
By Phillips, SAMPSON, & Co., AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

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NATURE

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THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. An Oration before the Phi

Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.

AN ADDRESS to the Senior Class in Divinity College,

Cambridge, July 15, 1838

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 College, Me., August 11,
1841

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155

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MAN THE REFORMER. A Lecture read before the

Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston,

January 25, 1841

LECTURE ON THE TIMES. Read in the Masonic Temple,

Boston, December 2, 1841

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237

THE CONSERVATIVE. A Lecture read in the Masonic

Temple, Boston, December 9, 1841 .

TAE TRANSCENDENTALIST. A Lecture read in the

Masonic Temple, Boston, January, 1842 .

TAE YOUNG AMERICAN. A Lecture read to the

Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February
7, 1844.

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