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Excerpt from A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. 2 of 2 The subject was Human Life; the soul, the universal principle in man, unfolding itself in the individual. The course might have been called Lectures on Transcendentalism; a summing-up of What was to be said for and against the new views. The indications of development, he says, are not always agreeable facts. It begins with protest and rejection, with turbulence and revolution, and thoughtful persons are apt to overlook, in the rude and partial expressions, the truth they prefigure It is like the rubbish and confusion that go before the building of a new city; they are not agreeable, but they may be welcomed for the sake of What they announce, at least for the symptoms of life and progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.