Reproduction of the original: Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This new 2019 edition of Self-Reliance from Logos Books includes The American Scholar, a stirring speech of Emerson's, as well as footnotes and images throughout.

Copy-texts in this edition are the first published versions of each text, restored here as Emerson’s initial audience would have read them.

The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great.