1860 collection including Fate, Power and Wealth; his last major essay collection, more attentive to necessity and constraint than the confident individualism of 1841.
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Source Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
1860, the same year the movement's own period-end-year marks (Emerson's last major collection in the movement's idiom).
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Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life (1860)
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1. Wikipedia: The Conduct of Life
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The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1860 and revised in 1876. In this volume, Emerson sets out to answer "the question of the times:" "How shall I live?" It is composed of nine essays, each preceded by a poem.
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Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
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