Representative Men (Version 2)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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1. Uses of Great Men P.1
2. Uses of Great Men P.2
3. Plato P.1
4. Plato P.2
5. Swedenborg P.1
6. Swedenborg P.2
7. Montaigne P.1
8. Montaigne P.2
9. Shakespeare P.1
10. Shakespeare P.2
11. Napoleon P.1
12. Napoleon P.2
13. Goethe P.1
14. Goethe P.2

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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