Representative Men (Version 2)
Chapter 1 of 14 Uses of Great Men P.1
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- 7 h 18 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- FloraMetrick, KevinS, Michele Eaton, Owlivia, Rita Boutros, William Allan Jones
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Seven Essays: his reasoning why and how great men have always been honored and necessary in our civilization, followed by six chapters dealing with, in order: Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakspeare (sic), Napoleon and Goethe.
Emerson was an old fashioned "Man of Letters". He was the head of the mid-19th century School of Transcendentalism. Poetry, essay and book on Philosophy, human rights and religious and social rights. - Summary by William Jones
