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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    In Ralph Waldo Emerson: Mature life and works

    …lecture series, he gathered his Essays into two volumes (1841, 1844), which made him internationally famous. In his first volume of Essays Emerson consolidated his thoughts on moral individualism and preached the ethics of self-reliance, the duty of self-cultivation, and the need for the expression of self. The second volume…

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