Table of Contents: (1836) essay on Nature. The American Scholar (1837) An Address (Harvard Divinity School) 1838. The Transcendentalist 1843. The Lord's Supper. ESSAYS; FIRST SERIES - HISTORY. SELF-RELIANCE. COMPSENSATION. SPIRITUAL LAWS. LOVE. FRIENDSHIP. PRUDENCE. HEROISM. THE OVER-SOUL. CIRCLES. INTELLECT. ART. *** SECOND SERIES: The Poet. Experience. Character. Manners. Gifts. Nature. Politics. Nominalist and Realist. New England Reformers. Plato; or, The Philosopher. Napoleon; or, the Man of the World. ENGLISH TRAITS . CONDUCT OF LIFE. SOCIETY AND SOLITURE. FARMING. POEMS. EXRA RIPLEY, DD . Emanicipation in the Britich West Indies. The Fugtive Slave Law. John Brown. The Emanicipation Proclamation. Thoreau. Abraham Lincoln. Carlyle.