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Emersonian
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CirclesEmerson's 1841 essay on the impossibility of fixity — every circle another can be drawn, every end a beginning, every truth superseded by a bolder one.NatureEmerson's founding essay of American Transcendentalism — a vision of nature as spirit made visible, and of the human soul as its rightful sovereign.Self-RelianceEmerson's 1841 manifesto of American spiritual independence: trust thyself, reject conformity, and live wholly from within.The Divinity School AddressEmerson's 1838 address to Harvard Divinity graduates: the churches are empty vessels, the soul is its own priest, and a new teacher is coming.The Over-SoulEmerson's 1841 essay on the universal mind that contains all individual souls — the Over-Soul, in which every moment of genuine faith participates.