THE

PROSE WORKS

OF

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

NEW AND REVISED EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:

FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.

Entered according to Acts of Congress, in the years 1847, 1850, 1855, 1856, 1860, and 1869,

by JAMES MUNROE & Co., PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & Co., and R. W. EMERSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS : WEŁCH, BIGELOW, & Co.,

CAMBRIDGE.