Essays: Second Series

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series

In Essays: Second Series (1844) by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author brought together a series of writings that laid out many of the fundamental concepts of the philosophical system that has come to be known as Transcendentalism. This book contains, "The Poet," "Experience," "Character," "Manners," "Gifts, "Nature," "Politics," "Nominalist and Realist," and "New England Reformers." These are also available from Cosimo Classics individually.