# Natural history of intellect, and other papers

Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71558

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## Summary

The first two pieces in this volume are lectures from the “University Courses” on philosophy, given at Harvard College in 1870 and 1871, by persons not members of the Faculty. “The Natural History of the Intellect” was the subject which Emerson chose. He had from his early youth cherished the project of a new method in metaphysics, proceeding by observation of the mental facts, without attempting an analysis and coördination of them, which must, from the nature of the case, be premature. With this view, he had, at intervals from 1848 to 1866, announced courses on the “Natural History of Intellect,” “The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy,” and “Philosophy for the People.” He would, he sa...

## Chapters

- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/natural-history-of-intellect-and-other-papers-71558/chapters/15/index.md)