SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.
TWELVE CHAPTERS.
BY
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
BOSTON:
FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.
1870.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
RALPH WALDO EMERSON,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Society and Solitude | 1 |
| Civilization | 15 |
| Art | 31 |
| Eloquence | 53 |
| Domestic Life | 91 |
| Farming | 121 |
| Works and Days | 139 |
| Books | 167 |
| Clubs | 199 |
| Courage | 225 |
| Success | 251 |
| Old Age | 279 |
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SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.
I fell in with a humorist, on my travels, whohad in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa,and who assured me that the name whichthat fine work of art bore in the catalogues wasa misnomer, as he was convinced that the sculptorwho carved it intended it for Memory, themother of the Muses. In the conversation thatfollowed, my new friend made some extraordinaryconfessions. “Do you not see,” he said, “thepenalty of learning, and that each of these schola