“To believe our own thought, to be believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.” A small but very self explanatory quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, a simple man but with a gifted mind. A mind so original with only one perspective of life. His mind was set on the sanity of the individual, that men must be able to act and think on his own. But like Emerson there was also a man full of faith in only one phenomenon, the Bible. Jonathan Edward author of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was convinced that men are already sentenced to go to hell and we’re just hanging by the grip of his hand. Two men with very distinguished points of view, but in the end which one is true? What would you prefer, to be your own god like Emerson suggest or follow every rule of a book in order to not sin like Edward? Emerson fully believed in individual liberty, Emerson grew being disgusted of society and it became being ashamed of
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Emerson tried to make it really clear that “society everywhere is in conspiracy against manhood,” that man can no longer think or act on his own when becoming a part of society. Freedom is a true sense of the world since when man stops thinking on his own he becomes a creature led by education, indeed that only one law that can be sacred is that law that is part of man's own nature. “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” He says that that is the main problem with society is that the goal is to conform people. “The virtue most in request in conformity.” He goes on and then says the conformity then robs people of their ability to think for themselves and to be independent thinkers just because it becomes so easy so simply follow the crowd rather than form original thoughts. Saying that society “...whips you with its displeasure,” Emerson truly was convinced that society did strip one from its individual freedom. Emerson encourages people to become self-reliant and listen to their inner
Emerson tried to make it really clear that “society everywhere is in conspiracy against manhood,” that man can no longer think or act on his own when becoming a part of society. Freedom is a true sense of the world since when man stops thinking on his own he becomes a creature led by education, indeed that only one law that can be sacred is that law that is part of man's own nature. “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” He says that that is the main problem with society is that the goal is to conform people. “The virtue most in request in conformity.” He goes on and then says the conformity then robs people of their ability to think for themselves and to be independent thinkers just because it becomes so easy so simply follow the crowd rather than form original thoughts. Saying that society “...whips you with its displeasure,” Emerson truly was convinced that society did strip one from its individual freedom. Emerson encourages people to become self-reliant and listen to their inner