INTRODUCTlON Ⅰ
INTRODUCTlON Ⅱ
FIRST SERIES
HISTORY
SELF-RELIANCE
COMPENSATION
SPIRITUAL LAWS
LOVE
FmENDSHIP
PRUDENCE
HEROISM
THEOVER-SOUL
CIRCLES
INTELLECT
ART
SECOND SERIES
THE POET
EXPERIENCE
CHARACTER
MANNERS
GIFTS
NATURE
POLITICS
NOMINALIST AND REALIST
NEW ENGLAND REFOR-MERS
APPENDIX
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
摘要
This human mind wrote history, and this must read it. The Sphinx must solve her own riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages, and the ages explained by the hours. Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him. Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible. We as we read must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, must fasten these images to some reality in……
