目录
INTRODUCTlON Ⅰ
INTRODUCTlON Ⅱ
FIRST SERIES
HISTORY
SELF-RELIANCE
COMPENSATION
SPIRITUAL LAWS
LOVE
FmENDSHIP
PRUDENCE
HEROISM
THEOVER-SOUL
CIRCLES
INTELLECT
ART
SECOND SERIES
THE POET
EXPERIENCE
CHARACTER
MANNERS
GIFTS
NATURE
POLITICS
NOMINALIST AND REALIST
NEW ENGLAND REFOR-MERS
APPENDIX
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
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《爱默生随笔集(英文版)》:爱默生是19世纪美国著名思想家、散文作家、演说家和诗人,美国前总统林肯曾赞喻他为“美国的孔子”、“美国文明之父”。在19世纪美国思想史、文化史和文学史上,爱默生都占有十分重要的地位,并对美国民族文学的发展产生了深远的影响,被尊为近代“美国文艺复兴”的旗手。
《爱默生随笔集(英文版)》是爱默生一生写作、思考的结晶。一百多年来,这些优秀的随笔如《论自然》、《论自助》等都成为最脍炙人口的作品。它们注重思想内容,行文犹如格言,哲理深入浅出,因而有人评价他“似乎只写警句”。他的文字所透出的气质难以形容:既充满专制式的不容置疑,又具有开放式的民主精神;既有贵族式的傲慢,更具有平民式的直接;既清晰易懂,又常常夹杂着某种神秘主义……
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This human mind wrote history, and this must read it. The Sphinx must solve her own riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages, and the ages explained by the hours. Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him. Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible. We as we read must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, must fasten these images to some reality in……
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