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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'Self-Reliance': A Detailed Summary
From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
"Self-Reliance": A Detailed Summary
It is genius, Emerson asserts (continuing one of the ideas of "The
American Scholar"), to have faith in the univeral significance of your own
thoughts, "to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true
for all men." For "in every work of genius we recognize our own rejected
thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." It is
therefore desirable to rely upon our own impressions, "else tomorrow a
stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and
felt ...
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