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Emerson's 'Self-Reliance.' (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19950101
Author:Stephenson, Mimosa; Stephenson, Will
The term parallax is used in Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Self-Reliance' to define the instinct for self-trust. According to the exploratory note in the fourth edition of 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature', the term parallax denotes the absence of an observational position. Emerson's comprehension of the state of his era's science and the use of a covert Shakespearean echo can be discerned from a deeper analysis of the word.
In "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson describes the instinct for self-trust as "that science-baffling star, without parallax, without calculable elements." The ...
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