Part one of term paper
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self-reliance, is an American romantic because it explores the philosophies of transcendentalism, and individualism. Transcendentalism is the belief that there is a higher reality, or truth that man can grasp through his intuition, not logic or science. The celebration of individualism, was to look to yourself, ...

Part two of term paper
... meaning do not seek yourself outside yourself. This is a philosophy which many Americans try to accomplish, that the ultimate source of truth is within ourselves. The simple romantic line of “trust thyself”, (Emerson 2)was a more central idea. Emerson believed that truth and happiness comes from within, “ 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.” (Emerson 222), and not from believing what another man thinks. ...