An audio recording by Doug Storm from Emerson’s Nature. (10:52) Introduction: Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should [...]
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from “Self-Reliance” by Emerson
An audio recording by Doug Storm of the below selection from “Self-Reliance.” (13:24) from Essays: First Series (1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson “Ne te quaesiveris extra.” “Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too [...]
Letter III of Letters From an American Farmer
An audio recording by Doug Storm of a selection from Letters from an American Farmer by Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur. – from Letters from an Amercian Farmer–from Letter III. (duration approximately 11 minutes) What is an American. I WISH I could be acquainted with the feelings and thoughts which must agitate the heart and present themselves [...]
from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
An audio recording by Doug Storm of selections of The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin. (duration approximately 18 minutes) from Leaving Boston from Arrival in Philadelphia from Arriving at Moral Perfection *** from Leaving Boston At length, a fresh difference arising between my brother and me, I took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that [...]
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Audio Recording by Doug Storm. From “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God“ (1741) by Jonathan Edwards. So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger [...]
from Of Plymouth Plantation
Audio recording by Doug Storm of portions of Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford. from Chapter 9 from Chapter 11 Indian Relations First Thanksgiving
The Place Where They Cried
Audio Recording by Douglas Storm of a Letter by Ralph Waldo Emerson to President Van Buren regarding the forced removal and relocation (1836 and 1839) of the Cherokee Nation from their lands in Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and North Carolina to the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) in the Western United States, which resulted in the deaths [...]
Happy Holidays from Bobby Frost
Audio Recording of Robert Frost’s “Christmas Trees” by Doug Storm. Christmas Trees Robert Frost (1920) (A Christmas Circular Letter) The city had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of snow not come to lie And whirls of foliage not yet laid, there drove A stranger to our yard, [...]
Resistance to Civil Government
Here is an audio recording by Doug Storm of Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience“ (originally “Resistance to Civil Government”). Let me know your thoughts!
Master-ful-less-ly Supercilious
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — – and our first thought is rendered back [...]
