In the “Nature” written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson explains with sympathy about how the people of the present view the past, such as religion and other already said ideas, as all the answers to the natural universe instead of finding the answer through the observation of nature and the individual’s beliefs. Since Emerson was a transcendentalist, he believed in self-reliance, idealism, and the divinity of nature. He emphasizes that the people of the present and the future need to look for the answers to life by observing the nature and experiencing one’s inner mind. He supports the idea of self-reliance by questioning, “why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe”
