Christina Katopodis, CUNY (all images via Wikimedia) Hercules Fighting Antaeus (1634) by Francisco de Zurbarán (via Wikimedia) Emerson advocates, across his oeuvre but especially in his 1833 lecture on “The Uses of Natural History,” and again in 1841 in the essay “History,” communing with nature as a habit of both mind and body. He writes, … Continue reading Emerson and Antaeus, the Broken Giant