Letters and Social Aims (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... COMPLETE WORKS. Riverside Edition. With 2 Portraits, and papers hitherto unpublished. 12 vols., each, 12mo, gilt top, $ 1.75; the set, $21.00. 1. Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (formerly known as Miscellanies). 2. Essays. First Series. 3. Essays. Second Series. 4. Representative Men. 5. English Traits. 6. Conduct of Life. 7. Society and Solitude. 8. Letters and Social Aims. 9. Poems. 10. Lectures and Biographical Sketches, n. Miscellanies, 12. Natural History of Intellect, and other Papers. With a General Index to Emerson's Collected Works. New Little Classic Edition. 12 vols., in arrangement and contents identical with above. Each, 18mo, $1.25; the set, $15.00. PO E M S. Household Edition. With Portrait. 12mo, $1.50; full gilt, $2.00. ESSAYS. First and Second Series. New Authorized Popular Edition, complete. 12mo, $1.00; paper, 50 cents. NATURE, LECTURES, AND ADDRESSES; together with REPRESENTATIVE MEN. Popular Edition. Crown 8vo, jf1.oo. PARNASSUS. A collection of Poetry edited by Mr. Emerson. With Introductory Essay. Household Edition. 12mo, $1.50. Library Edition. 8vo, $3.00. EMERSON BIRTHDAY BOOK. With Portrait and Illustrations. 34010, $1.00. EMERSON CALENDAR BOOK. 32mo, parchment-paper, 25 cents. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, Boston And New York. POETEY AND IMAGINATION. The perception of matter is made the common-sense, and for cause. This was the cradle, this the go-cart, o) the human child. We must learn the homely laws of fire and water; we must feed, wash, plant, build. These are ends of necessity, and first in the order of nature. Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common-sense. The intellect, yielded up to itself, cannot supersede this tyrannic necessity. The restrain