# Society and solitude: Twelve chapters

Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69258

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Society+and+solitude%3A+Twelve+chapters+Emerson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I fell in with a humorist, on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a misnomer, as he was convinced that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory, the mother of the Muses. In the conversation that followed, my new friend made some extraordinary confessions. “Do you not see,” he said, “the penalty of learning, and that each of these scholars whom you have met at S----, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood’s poem, guillotine the last but one?” He added many lively remarks, but his evident earnestness engaged my attention, and, in the...

## Chapters

- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/society-and-solitude-twelve-chapters-69258/chapters/16/index.md)