ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Emerson says we must have the self-trust to believe that they do and follow them as if they do. If, indeed, they are true, eventually everyone will accept them, and they will be “rendered back to us” as “the universal sense.”

Detailed explanation-2: -According to the selection, whom or what should every person trust? Every person should trust himself or herself. What will make a person relieved and happy? A person is relieved and happy when he has done his or her best.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”

Detailed explanation-4: -“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Detailed explanation-5: -Emerson asserts throughout Nature the primacy of spirit over matter. Nature’s purpose is as a representation of the divine to promote human insight into the laws of the universe, and thus to bring man closer to God.