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The Conduct of Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Conduct of Life is among the gems of his mature works. First published in the year of Abraham Lincoln's election as President, this work poses the questions of human freedom and fate. The book, here newly edited from the original 1860 edition and fully annotated to illuminate and trace Emerson's references, is a great classic of American philosophy and literature. In our first steps to gain our wishes, we come upon immovable limitations. We are fired with the hope to reform men. After many experiments, we find that we must begin earlier, -at school. But the boys and girls are not docile; we can make nothing of them. We decide that they are not of good stock. We must begin our reform earlier still, -at generation: that is to say, there is Fate, or laws of the world. But if there be irresistible dictation, this dictation understands itsel

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Izlaists 2020. gada 30. aprīlis
ISBN13 9798641179155
Lapas 134
Izmēri 216 × 280 × 7 mm   ·   326 g
Valoda Angļu  

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