Mr. Emerson is proclaiming that we live in a world where people want to tell you who to be and why. However he sates that if you find who you are in yourself that is one of the greatest accomplishment. During this time period many people were Christians and if you werent one then you were considered an outcast. However people started breaking away from this so called church. He himself was one of them. He proclaimed that if you would break away from church and find who you are then you have succeeded as a human bean. The words that he is saying represents a change in America culture of the early the early-mid 1800s from submitting to the churches laws and regulations to departing from the church and an interest in nature.
Mr. Emerson was a Romanticism writer who instead of believing in God, he believed in Nature. Therefore he broke away from the status quo and in his view opened up his mind. Many people at this time started reading and responding to the these type of writers rather then the corrupt sermons of the priest. The intellectual movement of looking at nature instead of God was beginning to spark up all over america. The church wasn't were it should be and romanticism was right there to catch the people when they fall looking for guidance.
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