Nature expresses Emerson's belief that each individual must develop a personal understanding of the universe. How do we do this with a fixed mindset? Or an anxious attachment style. Low has an idea.

Emerson explains that people must believe in their own intuition and reject the opinions of others in order to transcend the bounds of the physical world

"Life of Emerson" is a biographical essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that provides a brief overview of his own life and intellectual development. What is your purpose? What are 20% inputs in your life are causing 80% of your unwanted outputs...

Two boys bored of provincial life ask storyteller Sam Lawson to spin them some yarns. Settling down by the fireside for the evening, the wise old man begins. In “The Ghost in the Mill,” Cap’n Eb Sawin gets stuck in a snowstorm on the way to Boston. In need of shelter, he knocks on the door of the nearby mill to find old Cack getting ready for bed. After moving his team of horses into the barn for the night, Sawin joins Cack inside and soon falls asleep. In the middle of the night, however, a stranger arrives at the mill. Tune in for more..

Men of our times; or, Leading patriots of the day. Being narratives for the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators.

focuses on the struggles of a slave, Tom, who has been sold numerous times and has to endure physical brutality by slave drivers and his masters.

She learned early that her writing contributed to the family income. With her writing, Stowe could publicly express her thoughts and beliefs in a time when women were discouraged from public speaking, and could not vote or hold office.

The book presents lucid descriptions of human mental activity, with detailed considerations of the stream of thought, consciousness, time perception, memory, imagination, emotions, reason, abnormal phenomena, and similar topics.

psychology by William James, an American philosopher and psychologist who trained to be a physician before going into psychology. The four key concepts in James' book are: stream of consciousness; emotion; habit; and will.

The Will to Believe" is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, which defends, in certain cases, the adoption of a belief without prior evidence of its truth.