on self- reliance part five

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last installment


  • culture devalues individualism
  • Emerson recommends being a risk taker an don't be afraid to try new things it will change ones self regard
  • "But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action" 

  •  "All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken"
  • " Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts." 
  • "Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them".
  • "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles".
  • Self reliance then, is the triumph of a principal

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