Abstract
T HE PAINSTAKING LABORS of the lexicographer, who seeks to adjust the ractice of language to the mental habits of living people, can be usefully applied to literature, especially to works charged either with significant thought or with masterful language. Believing that Emerson's essays still have enough merit to justify the task, I have examined thirty-five of them (Nature, The American Scholar, The Divinity School Address, Essays-both First and Second Series, 'Plato' and 'Napoleon' in Representative Men, and The Conduct of Life), with the purpose of discovering the true meaning of Emersonian virtue.
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