Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American Transcendentalist philosopher and essayist. From 1836 to 1837, Emerson presented a series of lectures on the philosophy of history at Boston’s Masonic Temple. These lectures were never published separately but many of Emerson’s thoughts were later used in Self-reliance. In this book, first published in 1841, Emerson clearly illustrates the need for each…
