Essays

Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.

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On Emerson’s “Self Reliance,” Whims, and Impressions

Spencer Antolini September 26, 2022

Go visit the Carthage Jail visitor’s center in Illinois, and you will be treated to brief video on the life of Joseph Smith. It opens with the following quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1838 Harvard Divinity Address: “It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake…”

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