Essays, First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul”. (From Essay 9, ‘The Over-Soul’) (8 hr 28 min)
Chapters
Essay 01 - History | 56:20 | Read by Linda Leu |
Essay 02 - Self-Reliance | 1:07:12 | Read by Linda Leu |
Essay 03 - Compensation | 56:24 | Read by David Barnes |
Essay 04 - Spiritual Laws | 51:27 | Read by Geoff Dugwyler |
Essay 05 - Love | 27:15 | Read by Christabel |
Essay 06 - Friendship | 43:08 | Read by Linda Leu |
Essay 07 - Prudence | 32:10 | Read by Cori Samuel |
Essay 08 - Heroism | 31:56 | Read by David Barnes |
Essay 09 - The Over-Soul | 50:34 | Read by Linda Leu |
Essay 10 - Circles | 35:12 | Read by Linda Leu |
Essay 11 - Intellect | 31:06 | Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Essay 12 - Art | 25:49 | Read by Claire Goget |
Reviews
Compensation
A LibriVox Listener
I love this more than I can put into words. There is a glitch in the recording around 51 minutes and the essay starts over. It's on YouTube also so I just match it up to finish the essay there. Just a tip because the ending line is one of my favorites and the restart doesn't let you hear it. I should clarify....only the ones read by Bob Neufeld