Representative Men: Seven Lectures

ISBN-13: 9781517345853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 76 str.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opis

It is natural to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would not surprise us. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic; that is, their genius is paramount. In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth, and found it deliciously sweet.