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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What question does Emerson set out to answer in The Conduct of Life?
In the opening essay of The Conduct of Life, as given in the Project Gutenberg text, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes: "To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity."
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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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The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1860 and revised in 1876.
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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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