The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson

After reading the American scholar and compare Emerson’s words with today’s society I would say it’s pretty much the same, where it is still true today about how a man’s thinking divided our society to our social level, where one will held accountable for their tasks. And it is still true about how books and action of a man would educate themselves. Even though I would say that it’s more like the internet other than books nowadays because of the times we spend on internet is much great than the time we spend on reading and even if we reads sometime it will be from a ebooks or online.

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I would say that one of the difficult passages I found in the essay from Emerson was

“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. ….and goes on for ever to animate the last fibre of organization, the outskirts of nature, by insight.”

Even though this passage might have the same language as the other passages, I’ve some trouble reading and understand not just the terminology of the passage but also the concept of it. I found it difficult to understand the true meaning of it, where the main point of the passage or main idea of it wasn’t clear. Unlike the other passage where you will understand that it was talking about how a man was divided into different social class where each of them hold accountable of their task, or where he is talking about books where books are a resource for us to understand “the mind of the past” .