LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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That humans need to make more machines
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that the animals are smarter than humans
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That the human mind is more powerful than any machine
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That Henry David Thoreau was intelligent
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Detailed explanation-1: -Emerson believes that “the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind” (Nature 41). In other words, human behaviors mirror natural laws and therefore, it is possible for people to learn from the nature.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emerson proposes that men live based on their own individual instincts thereby creating their own internal law. Emerson believes that men fail to prosper because they allow society to think for them. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblins of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Detailed explanation-3: -Emerson’s emphasis on self-reliance and nonconformity, his championing of an authentic American literature, his insistence on each individual’s original relation to God, and finally his relentless optimism, that “life is a boundless privilege, ” remain his chief legacies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Emerson argues that power is not simply a matter of physical strength or material wealth, but rather a reflection of the creative and imaginative capacities of the human spirit.