tz 253). Emerson focused on a more important subject most of the time, though, and this was the ordeals of nature. As a preacher, he even spoke of the miraculous power of nature, and that a life in harmony with nature would bring about understanding of nature. "Nature was the end product of many paragraphs in his journals and lectures, and of occasional thoughts projected in sermons and letters" (Derleth 65). Emerson traveled great distances to speak to crowds and let them hear
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