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Ellen Russell Emerson was born in New Sharon, Maine, United States. Her parents were Dr. Leonard White and Fanny (Fisk) Russell.
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Indian Myths or Legends, Traditions, and Symbols of the Aborigines of America, Compared (Classic Reprint)
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Bt the compilation of these myths, I seek to make more evident the capacity of the Indian race for moral and intellectual culture. The oneness of origin of diverse races is not less apparent than the singleness of the origin of the rainbow light broken upon a cloud. The same orb whence fall the unshattered sunbeams upon the hill-top is also the source of the pageant of color fringing the dark mantle of the flying storm. Diversity in unity is the vesture of God, the Parent Enei of the universe. Diverse races are but the varying offspring of that ever existent Life of which the heavens are witness, whose measureless heights transcend the limits of thought. Our earth, an atom in shoreless space, is a laboratory in which tireless Divinity works with tmceasing energy, kindling the fire of souls, and informing with wisdom the common dust thrown off the passing foot of man, permitting the microscopic particles to inhale that breath which is life. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Masks, Heads, and Faces: With Some Considerations Respecting the Rise and Development of Art by Emerson, Ellen Russell (2010) Paperback
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ELLEN RUSSELL EMERSON
Edit ProfileEducation
Ellen Russell Emerson received her early education in the schools of the period at her birthplace, New Sharon, Maine.
In due time her parent sent her to Mount Vernon Seminary at Boston, Massachusetts in the United States, where she received the especial instruction of the president, Dr. Robert Cushman.
Career
Becoming interested in the subject of the ethnology of the American Indians and seeking to broaden her field, she traveled extensively during four years stay in Europe, from 1886 to 1889.
At this time exploration in Egypt was being actively prosecuted, and she engaged in the study of Egyptology at Paris with the distinguished professor, M. Gaston Maspero.
Her first work, Indian Myths; or Legends, Traditions, and Symbols of the Aborigines of America Compared with Those of Other Countries, including Hindostan, Egypt, Persia, Assyria and China (1884), is not merely a compilation, but a rational arrangement for which she supplied the ideas and often brilliant deductions.
She did not seek to prove too much or wander into impossible situations, propensities too common in writers on the subject.
This first work represents a great labor and remains valuable to the students of folklore, but like all such assemblages of material, is to be read with proper discrimination.
After a number of years of study and collection of material, Mrs. Emerson produced Masks, Heads, and Faces with Some Considerations Respecting the Rise and Development of Art (1891), which was conceived and executed in the true scientific spirit.
The magnitude of the subject and the preparation required to obtain results is explanation of the fact that Mrs. Emerson published only a few books in her lifetime.
Nature and Human Nature (1902) completes the list of her larger works.
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Indian Myths or Legends, Traditions, and Symbols of the Aborigines of America, Compared (Classic Reprint)
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Nature and Human Nature
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Personality
The author’s indefatigable pursuit of information from the most difficult sources, the arrangement of the abundant data, and the sane presentation in excellent English show her to have been a student of exceptional ability.
Incidentally, the preface is a model of clear thinking and felicitous expression.
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In 1862 she married Edwin R. Emerson.
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American