LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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consistency
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society
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cowardice
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conspiracy
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Detailed explanation-1: -A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emerson states that the most sacred part of a person is his/her integrity of their own mind. What does Emerson call the “Hobgoblin of little minds"? Emerson calls the “hobgoblin of little minds” people who don’t think for themselfves, follows whate everyone else tells them.
Detailed explanation-3: -The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old.
Detailed explanation-4: -To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -that is genius.
Detailed explanation-5: -“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”