Emerson's Thinking Patterns in Self-Reliance

Emerson’s Thinking Patterns in “Self Reliance”

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the well educated
people who lived in the period before the civil war.
He wrote several meaningful literary pieces such as
“Compensation” and “Spiritual Laws.” But his essay
titled “ Self-Reliance” is truly insightful regarding
the way that nature affects man. Emerson thought that
every natural fact was a symbol of some spiritual
fact, and they it was all interconnected.
Every appearance in nature ...