Self-Reliance that would become "Self-Reliance" was presented by Ralph Waldo Emerson as part of a sermon in September 1830 a month after his first marriage. His wife Ellen was sick with tuberculosis and, as Emerson's biographer Robert D. Richardson wrote, "Immortality had never been stronger or more desperately needed!" From 1836 into 1837, Emerson presented a series of lectures on the philosophy of history at Boston's Masonic Temple. These lectures were never published separately, but many of his thoughts in these were later used in "Self-Reliance" and several other essays. Later lectures by Emerson led to public censure of his radical
Days and Nights of Love and War between Galeano's earlier journalistic work and his later more literary output; it was the first of a series of works (culminating in his "Memory of Fire" trilogy) which established his reputation as a writer. It inspired the anarchist collective CrimethInc.'s 2001 manifesto "Days of War, Nights of Love", which shares its mixed form, aphoristic style and embrace of philosophy and morality as weapons within a political superstructure. Days and Nights of Love and War Days and Nights of Love and War () is a 1978 book by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. It was published in English translation in 1982 by