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This 3 page paper consists of abstracts for two of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays, "Self-Reliance" and "The American Scholar," and Henry David Thoreau's "Walden." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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for two of Ralph Waldo Emersons essays, and for several selections from Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Emerson Emerson and Thoreau are both writers of the "transcendental" school. Defining "transcendental"
isnt easy because it can have many meanings. In this context, however, well assume it means "beyond the realm and reach of the senses" (Transcendental). We see this bent reflected
in Emersons life, when he leaves the ministry, paradoxically, to better understand the nature of God (Perkins and Perkins). Emerson believed that transcendental law was "moral law" and that through
it, humans could discover "the nature of God, a living spirit" (Perkins and Perkins 331). But this was not what organized religion taught-it approached knowledge of God "through fixed conventions
of dogma and scripture" (Perkins and Perkins 331). Emerson believed that the "true nature of life was energetic and fluid" and that its "transcendental unity resulted from the convergence of
all forces upon the energetic truth, the heart of the moral law" (Perkins and Perkins 331). In his essay "The American Scholar," Emerson argues that Americans are ready to begin
charting their own course, free from the restrictions of European thinking (Emerson). He says that the ancient gods divided "Man" into "men" so that he could more easily help himself;
that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). The scholarly part of Man Emerson calls Man
Thinking (Emerson). The scholar, Emerson argues, is educated "by nature, by books, and by action" (Emerson). The first, education by nature, is the most important and is also probably the
best example of his use of transcendentalism. Here he says of Nature, "The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in
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