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Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance Emerson’s Biography: “The Sage of Concord” 1803- Ralph Waldo Emerson born on May 25 in Boston. 2nd of 5 boys. 1817-1821- Attends Harvard College. 1829-Ordained junior pastor of Boston’s Second Church. In July of the same year was named a pastor. 1831- Wife Ellen Tucker Emerson dies of tuberculosis on Feb. 8. Faces spiritual crisis. 1832- On December 22, renounces pastorate and sails for Europe. 1833- Returns from Europe and delivers a lecture on “The Uses of Natural History” before Natural History Society in Boston. 1835- Marries Lydia Jackson of Plymouth and moves to rural Concord where his family has property. 1836-Publishes first book Nature. 1837-8-Addresses Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa Society on the American scholar and the Divinity School’s graduates on Christianity. Emerson’s Biography Cont’d 1840- Editor of The Dial 1842- Son Waldo dies at the age of 5 from which he does not recover. 1844- Son’s death pushes him to write his essay titled “Experience.” Publication of the The Dial ends. “Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies” delivered at the Concord Court House on Aug. 1 1847-48-Second trip to Europe. Lectures in England and Scotland. 1855- “Lecture on Slavery” presented before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at the Tremont Temple in Boston. Spoke before the Woman’s Rights Convention to support the woman’s right to vote. 1856- Publishes English Traits 1873-Fire damages his house. Travels to Europe and Egypt with daughter Ellen and meets with Thomas Carlyle one last time. 1882-Dies in April 27. Transcendentalism According to Emerson The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstasy. He wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end, in all possible applications to the state of man, with