Friendship & Other Essays

"Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds to the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, known as the father of Transcendentalism, rejected the puritan picture of human depravity and instead argued that people were inherently good. In these essays, titled ''Friendship'', ''Love'', ''Prudence'', ''Heroism'', ''Character'' ...