Representative Men
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
1850
ISBN/ASIN: 089875500X
Number of pages: 206
Description:
Representative Men includes seven lectures on great men -- Plato, Swedenborg, Montaige, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe. It is natural to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would not surprise us.
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