Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a book-length essay published in 1836. This foundational work introduces transcendentalism, a belief system proposing that the divine suffuses nature and that reality can be understood through studying the natural world. Emerson divides nature into four usages—Commodity, Beauty, Language, and Discipline—exploring how humans relate to their environment. He argues that true connection with nature requires solitude, away from society's distractions, allowing individuals to experience spiritual wholeness
and become one with the Universal Being. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 34025487 |
| Title | Nature |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(essay) |
| Credits | Produced by Ruth Hart |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Nature |
| Subject | Philosophy, American |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 29433 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-29433-9 |
| Release Date | Jul 17, 2009 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 13238 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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