1850 collection of seven lectures, each reading a historical figure as an embodiment of one human capacity: Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon and Goethe.
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Source Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
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Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men (1850)
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Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850.
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men (1850)
Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
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