Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born May 25, 1803, and went on to become one of the country’s best-known essayists, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement. “Self-Reliance”, one of his best known works, encapsulated his religious and philosophical beliefs: that the individual intuition, and the individual sense of the divine, ranks above all else. Below, an excerpt.
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past …
