CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

MISCELLANIES.

NATURE.

THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. An Oration before the Phi Beta

Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837

AN ADDRESS to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cam-
bridge, July 15, 1838.

LITERARY ETHICS. An Address to the Literary Societies in

Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838 .

THE METHOD OF NATURE. An Address to the Society of the

Adelphi, in Waterville College, Me., August 11, 1841

THE CONSERVATIVE. A Lecture read in the Masonic Temple,

Boston, December 9, 1841

HISTORY.

SELF-RELIANCE

THE TRANSCENDENTALIST. A Lecture read in the Masonic

Temple, Boston, January, 1842

THE YOUNG AMERICAN. A Lecture read to the Mercantile Li-

brary Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844

ESSAYS.

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MAN THE REFORMER. A Lecture read before the Mechanics'

Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841 123

LECTURE ON THE TIMES. Read in the Masonic Temple, Bos-

ton, December 2, 1841

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MISCELLANIES.

VOL. 1.

NATURE.

A subtle chain of countless rings
The next unto the farthest brings;
The eye reads omens where it goes,
And speaks all languages the rose;
And, striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.