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
Essays on Truth and Reality Essays on Truth and Reality Essays on Truth and Reality is a 1914 book by the English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley, in which the author expounds his philosophy of absolute idealism and gives the classic statement of a coherence theory of truth and knowledge. The British philosopher Timothy Sprigge has suggested that in some respects Bradley's absolute idealism receives a better exposition in "Essays on Truth and Reality" than it had in Bradley's earlier work "Appearance and Reality" (1893). He notes that Bradley's coherence theory of truth is the classic statement of such a position, comparing Bradley's views to those