John Locke's book, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," presents the concept of Tabula Rasa or blank slate, which states that the human mind receives knowledge through the experience without any pre-existing innate ideas when they were born. In Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,...

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Colonel Sherburn's (in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) and Emerson's definition of a "man" (man stands for all mankind) both emphasize the importance of being an individual in a society of followers. ... The character Hester from the novel The Scarlet Letter exclaims, "Exchange this false life of thine for a true one." ...

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