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Emerson on conformity
- “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.” is one of the first sentence of Emerson's essay.
- This thought will be repeated several times in the rest of the text, being one of the connecting thread of it.
- Emerson is clearly against conformity: “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” For him, conforming equal to losing your soul, and being passive, with no backbone, no guts and no character.
- It also means giving up, because if we acted like society want us to, we will give up whenever things get a little rough.
- People's fear of failure keeps them secluded, and they lost their connections to themselves.
- SophiaD
November 2014
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