Representative Men - Softcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595404473 ISBN 13: 9781595404473

Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2004

Synopsis

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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. Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society; and, actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors. We call our children and our lands by their names. Their names are wrought into the verbs of language, their works and effigies are in our houses, and every circumstance of the day recalls an anecdote of them.

Edition details

• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1595404473
• ISBN 13: 9781595404473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: 1st World Library, 1stworld Library