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Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

1841-1843 (Volume VIII) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

In July 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to Thomas Carlyle: “My whole philosophy…teaches acquiescence and optimism.” The journals in this volume, beginning in the summer of 1841, record the spiritual history of two years that can be viewed as the most critical test in Emerson’s life of his ability to..