In the first paragraph of "Nature," Emerson points out that the "modern age is retrospective. It builds upon the sepulchers of the past" (Emerson 177). Here Emerson is saying that the modern generation is looking at the world through their ancestors eyes instead of taking their own view of the world. Emerson then precedes to ask three questions which all have the same meaning: he asks why we should not look at the world through our own perspective. After asking this same question in three different ways Emerson writes "The shines to-day also" (Emerson 177). By writing this Emerson is answering his question. He is saying that there is no reason for the modern generation to not use an original modern perspective when looking at the world. This sentence transitions the essay from rhetorical questioning to asserting the argument. Emerson then proceeds to argue his point that modern people can have their own perspective by saying "There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own work and laws and worship" (Emerson 177). Here Emerson is basically restating the phrase "The sun shines to-day also" in a different way for emphasis. He is trying to show that his modern audience does have the necessary surrounding to have their own perspectives on the world and shouldn't use past models. .
Emerson begins the next paragraph by writing "Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable" then later in the paragraph he writes "Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquires he would put" (Emerson 177). Here Emerson is saying that man cannot ask a question which cannot be answered. Whatever curiosity that causes the question to arise breeds the same imaginativeness to answer the question. Even though the solution may be difficult to discern – like hieroglyphics – they are there.