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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
essays
role played by "great men" in society
Plato
Emanuel Swedenborg
Michel de Montaigne
William Shakespeare
Napoleon
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History
Thomas Carlyle
Parallel Lives
Plutarch
Representative Men
LibriVox
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e
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar
Divinity School Address
New England Reformers

The Rhodora
Concord Hymn
Uriel
Brahma
Boston Hymn
Nature

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