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This 4 page paper examines this intriguing essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson for examples of transcendence. Several quotes are included. No additional sources cited.
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what the author meant, but the work indeed exudes the obvious message that each man makes his own path. He acknowledges that men who do trust themselves and stray from
the norm are perhaps seen as nonconformists. Further, Emerson describes society as a "conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members" (62). Indeed, Emerson describes the infant
growing into manhood and finally entering society on his own two feet, only to be mocked. He goes on to talk about conformity and how one can only grow into
his true manhood if he does not conform. Individuality is above all the most important thing and the author seems to label, or equate that, with self-reliance. This seems
to be a very down to Earth piece, but according to a student, while Ralph Waldo Emersons Self Reliance " is more about society and the importance of individuality and
individual effort, there (are) aspects of transcendentalism which shine through." In other words, the work is not really about how man can rely on the self because there
are hidden meanings that go to transcendence. Emerson writes: "I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will and rounded in by the law
of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere" (66). Here, the author writes about nature and what man is naturally
like. There is a sense that there is something more to man because he has a particular nature. He goes on to say the following: "Whenever a mind is simple
and receives a divine wisdom, then old things pass away, -- means, teachers, texts, temples, fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour" (Emerson 70).
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