Ralph Waldo Emerson establishes this belief by making the assertion that, "every young man [or woman] is born with some determination in his [or her] nature, and is a potential genius" (Emerson). ... Emerson states that, "the child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart, " symbolizing that every child is born with a passion for learning" (Emerson). ... In fact, this number has the potential to be much larger, but it would take the nation wide acceptance of a very unpopular belief: academics are not the key to success alone. ... Emerson acknowledged this belief when he presented the opin...

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This is similar to Aristotle's dictum "know thyself"; - transcendentalists accepted the neo-Platonic conception of nature as a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic; - the belief that individual virtue and happiness depend upon self-realization - this depends upon the reconciliation of two universal psychological tendencies: a) the expansive or self-transcending tendency-a desire to embrace the whole world - to know and become one with the world. ... One of the clearest statements of the ideas of Transcendentalism was presented by Ralph Waldo Emerso...

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This new belief then combined common sense with ideas from European thinkers. ... For romantics, the imagination, spontaneity, individual feelings, and nature were of greater value than reason, logic, planning, and cultivation. ... Transcendentalism influenced writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is responsible for the writing of NATURE and SELF-RELIANCE. ...

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The myopic nature of this troubling view was lamented in one of the most famous speeches ever given, "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."... Where Roger Williams was willing to reject the narrow strictures of his religious community to found one that reflected his view that all beliefs should be respected and tolerated, Sarah Knight's journals show a woman who was not bound by ideas that placed women in a specific mold in the 17th Century. ... Thoreau and Emerson...

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