Ralph Waldo Emerson

achieved admiration beauty become believed better Boston century character Christian church Concord contemporary conviction creatures Deism deist deity divine doctrine earth Edward Emer England Essays eternal experience eyes fact faculty feeling friends GEORGE SANTAYANA Harvard heaven human ideal ideas important individual inspiration intellectual intuition Jesus Jonathan Edwards kind knew lectures less live man's mankind Margaret Fuller means ment mind moral mystical nation nature never once one's original relation Over-Soul Partial Portraits perfect person philosophical Plato Plotinus Plutarch poem poet poetry political principle prose Puritan qualities race Ralph Waldo Emerson readers realized reason reform religion religious revealed rightly Samuel Johnson seemed self-reliance sense society Socrates sought soul spiritual spite Theodore Parker things thinkers Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine thought tion Transcendentalist true truth Unitarian universe virtue volume women words writing young