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“Compensation" in Essays: First Series”

"Compensation" in Essays: First Series (1841) Inferred

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · 1841

InferredFuller addresses Emerson directly, praising "your great doctrine of Compensation." The doctrine is the central argument of Emerson's essay "Compensation" in *Essays: First Series* (1841)

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“while you on your side may breathe on him a calmness from your great doctrine of Compensation”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller addresses Emerson directly, praising "your great doctrine of Compensation." The doctrine is the central argument of Emerson's essay "Compensation" in Essays: First Series (1841)