How Long to Read The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

How Long Does it Take to Read The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 33 minutes to read The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Richard G. Geldard

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

No one who has felt the life-changing pull of Emerson's enormous planetary mind has ever doubted his power or his greatness, though we are often puzzled to know whether he is primarily a poet, an essayist or a philosopher. Richard Geldard is not puzzled at all by this; he has written a book that plainly shows Emerson to be essentially a teacher, the Socrates of Concord, a man with a message that we need to hear today. Previous generations "beheld God and nature face to face," Emerson says, and adds provocatively that we moderns seem able only to see those things through the eyes of the earlier generations. "Why," he asks-and the question is intended to shatter our complacency-"Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Emerson's life was devoted to showing how one may still attain an original, that is to say, an authentic, relation to the universe, and Geldard's book aims to focus and distill the famously dispersed Emerson and put his central teachings into the modern reader's hand. Previous edition titled The Esoteric Emerson: the Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Click here to read an interview with the author, Richard Geldard

How long is The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson?

The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Richard G. Geldard is 212 pages long, and a total of 53,424 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 51 minutes to read The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson aloud.

What Reading Level is The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson?

The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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