"The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson" I found this book (or a very similar collection of Emerson's works) bound in a small red hardcover the fall of my

"The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson" I found this book (or a very similar collection of Emerson's works) bound in a small red hardcover the fall of my freshman year at a catholic high school. The essays "Self-Reliance" and the "Divinity School Address" were both important. "Self-Reliance" provided fuel to sit in a room of antique x86 parts to follow the blueprint that ESR's "Hacker Howto" laid out (install and learn FreeBSD; learn Python, Perl, C, Lisp; write software). "Divinity School Address" started me away from Catholicism.