NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES. MISCELLANIES; EMBRACING NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES. BY R. W. EMERSON. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY. M.DCCC.LVI. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. CONTENTS. NATURE 5 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. AN ORATION BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE, AUGUST 31, 1837 75 AN ADDRESS TO THE SENIOR CLASS IN DIVINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, JULY 15, 1838 113 LITERARY ETHICS. AN ADDRESS TO THE LITERARY SOCIETIES IN DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, JULY 24, 1838 147 THE METHOD OF NATURE. AN ADDRESS TO THE SOCIETY OF THE ADELPHI, IN WATERVILLE COLLEGE, MAINE, AUGUST 11, 1841 181 MAN THE REFORMER. A LECTURE READ BEFORE THE MECHANICS’ APPRENTICES’ LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, BOSTON, JANUARY 25, 1841 217 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ON THE TIMES. READ IN THE MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, DEC. 2, 1841 249 THE CONSERVATIVE. A LECTURE READ IN THE MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, DECEMBER 9, 1841 283 THE TRANSCENDENTALIST. A LECTURE READ IN THE MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, JANUARY, 1842 317 THE YOUNG AMERICAN. A LECTURE READ TO THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, IN BOSTON, FEBRUARY 7, 1844 349 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. INTRODUCTION.