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Essays, First Series 
By Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 


“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; 
the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal 
ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only 
self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the 
spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, 
the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul”. (From Essay 9, “The 
Over-Soul’) 


01 - History - 00:56:20 - Read by Linda Leu 

02 - Self-Reliance — 01:07:12 - Read by Linda Leu 

03 - Compensation - 00:56:24 - Read by David Barnes 
04 - Spiritual Laws - 00:51:27 - Read by Geoff Dugwyler 
0S - Love - 00:27:15 - Read by Christabel 

06 - Friendship - 00:43:08 - Read by Linda Leu 

07 - Prudence — 00:32:10 - Read by Cori Samuel 

08 - Heroism - 00:31:56 - Read by David Barnes 

09 - The Over-Soul — 00:50:34 - Read by Linda Leu 

10 - Circles - 00:35:12 - Read by Linda Leu 

11 - Intellect - 00:31:06 0 Read by J. M. Smallheer 

12 - Art - 00:25:49 0 Read by Claire Goget 


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